J. K. Simmons Quotes

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

Those who disrupt their industries change consumer behavior, alter economics, and transform lives.

The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.

Eagles are extinct, " grumbled Morpurgo. "Perhaps they should have attacked the sky. It betrayed them.

Life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

To separate yourself from your weakness and look at it objectively is a very powerful thing.

... a comment with the idle arrogance common of such nobodies who have just come into a small bit of power.

So many important things pass quickly without being understood at the time. So many powerful moments are buried beneath the absurd

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

We are strong and proud and beautiful and there are not enough stars in the night sky to measure our worth. I will honor my mother and take care of my family.Yes, I think. I am just a woman.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Did you ever have one of those nights when you didn't want to go out but your hair looked too good to stay home?

Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.

The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall.

My intellect was my greatest vanity.

My opponents attitude is, 'If it moves, tax it, if it keeps moving, regulate it and when it stops, subsidize it.

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

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

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

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.

There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World, ' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

I go to yoga every day. I meditate every morning.

If you're feeling frumpy or grumpy, try to eat Paleo. It's a way of eating that is sometimes referred to as the 'Caveman Diet.'

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

I put my family first, and that's why for a long time, you didn't see me dating or hear about me dating or hear about me out. I had other focuses in my life, and that would be my family and my work.