J. C. Watts Quotes

I go to a dance class myself called BBS - Body By Simone - its little mini dance routines and I am often the oldest person in the room although I forget that. I'm fairly fit.

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

But pattern-matching doesn't equal comprehension.

I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

I've always wanted to do a Shakespearean soliloquy, or a fake Shakespearean soliloquy, and now I'm doing that more often in shows. Things I've always wanted to do starting to happen.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.

In reality there are no separate events. Life moves along like water, it's all connected to the source of the river is connected to the mouth and the ocean.

Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick.

We must be careful that the business we build does not become mere busyness.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead?

Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are.

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

You can't have something without nothing.

What would you do if money was no object?

When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.

The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

Society is our extended mind and body.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

What we need to realize is that there can be, shall we say, a movement, a stirring among people, which can be organically designed instead of politically designed.

As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!

There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing.

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?

Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.

Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.

I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something that really annoys me, I fixate on it, learn something about it and then, when I'm onstage, it comes out.

I don't have a 10-octave range. No human being has a 10-octave range.

What I'm doing on stage now is just the tip of the iceberg.

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.