Jimmy Buffett Quotes

It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

Jimmy Buffett

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• Produce great men, the rest follows.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Great
  • Men
  • Rest

• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Wish
  • Paint
  • I Wish

• I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.

  

  Rand Paul
  • World
  • Believe
  • Friend

• When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Character
  • You
  • Look

• Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Song
  • Thought
  • Guitar

• Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Nature
  • Treat
  • Human Nature

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Culture

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• At school I had only admirers; I had no friends.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • School
  • Friends
  • Only

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Think
  • Growing

• I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Game
  • Want
  • Humble

• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

  

  Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Good
  • Done
  • Truth

• On 'Game of Thrones,' I remember shooting in Croatia, and by lunchtime we'd see photos of what we'd shot online and think, 'My God - people really care.'

  

  Alan Taylor
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• I'd rather wear black than bright florals like most fat ladies do.

  

  Louise Wilson
  • Black

• I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • First
  • Old

• A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

  

  Anna Seward
  • Time
  • Education
  • Attention

• It takes just as little time to see the positive side of life as it does the negative side.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Life
  • Time
  • Positive