J. K. Simmons Quotes

The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.

Not really. I'm not a fan of Chinese food

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

A good example is a better legacy for children than wealth or honor.

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true faith--was trusting in that love.

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed

Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.

Life doesn't retreat.

Sometimes ... dreams are all that separate us from the machines.

Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil.

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

Merely to live without a pain Is little gladness, little gain, Ah, welcome joy tho' mixt with grief-- The thorn-set flower that crowns the leaf.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

The problem with being passionately in love ... is that it deprives you of too much sleep.

Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.

This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.

Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

Lovemaking seems all too absurd when described.

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.

War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

Power: a currency that never went out of style.