CJ Quinn Quotes

hindsight is not a strategy.

Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.

Your business will look totally different from your customer's viewpoint, so jump the counter and start to see things from their perspective.

I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely.

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.

Life is hard for everyone. That's why there's such a nice reward at the end of it.

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

I can relate to somebody wanting to have something to believe in.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

I don't like people that try to psyche other people out.

I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

You have a mother?" He quirked a brow. "Did you think mine was some sort of divine birth? My father was a remarkable man, but even he was not that talented.

Love works in mysterious ways.

I thought you wanted food," she gasped. "I do," he murmured, tugging on the bodice of her dress. "But I want you more.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.

Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable.

Children don't need learning. They need access to what they want to learn outside the home.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.

We are all captives of a story.

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

The world is not going to survive very much longer as humanity's captive.

Well... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.

You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world. There's nothing like it.

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

I didn't intend to become an actor.