J. K. Simmons Quotes

Human beings have only that confusing mass of chemically driven neurological storage to rely on. They're all subjective and emotion-tinged. How can they trust any of their memories?

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

Mobs have passions, not brains.

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art.

No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

The Victorians, they were like the Germans in World War II. They could not stop recording details about their lives and their age.

The less you do to beautiful food, the better it's going to taste. You don't need to mess with it all the time.

I always want my guests to be happy and impressed.

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!

You can't fake being able to cook well.

I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

Canada is a big part of my life.

Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian.

In America, Blackberry Farm in Tennessee is one of the most amazing hotels I've had the privilege of staying at.

I eat for a living, so working out is definitely part of my job, the same way that the eating, tasting, and drinking is.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.

You know, I lose patience really easily; I'd rather shop in the grocery store than in the department store. I can pick an apple like nobody's business.

I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.

Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.

At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

Ultimately, I realized that in order to write about food you need to understand everything about cooking, so I moved to New York and enrolled in the Institute of Culinary Education.

I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

When you're dead you don't have a mental problem.

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"

I've never been high or drunk in my life.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.

Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.

If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.

It's too easy to do a patriotic-themed show to crawl into people's hearts and minds.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you.

Collaborative is my favorite word in moviemaking.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy.

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.