J. K. Simmons Quotes

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

I'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

Let's look different! I like monster movies, so why can't I have Godzilla's face on my boots?

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

The honey is guarded by bees.. The rose has thorns.. To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.

If I've got the right songs, I can weave a spell over everyone.

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

All of a sudden, I'm thinking that if I keep eating the way I'm eating, I'm not going to live long and I'm going to die. Having those thoughts as a young person can be very haunting.

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.

I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

For 40 years, my formula has been to love yourself, move your body and to watch portion size. But the No. 1 thing is to love and value yourself, no matter what you've been through.

Anyone whose mission is keeping people apart is swimming against a very strong tide.

Those who need nothing attract everything.

Get your hustle on... Hard work is easy, working out is hard.

There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.

No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

In fact it is essential that we strengthen efforts to learn from each other, and stop considering public health in the third world and in the U.S. as separate intellectual and practical endeavors.

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

No matter where you're from or what you've done, you're never stuck in a particular circumstance, relationship, or cycle unless you say you are.

His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.

What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?

Its hard to die. Harder to live

All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.

You have to live to really know things, my love

... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters.

The whole planet reeks of mysticism without revelation.

I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make them laugh. And they always told me to dream big and follow those dreams.

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

I think that diversity is key for the next American entrepreneurs. They want to be a part of this society where there is so much diversity they have to have people from all the experiences.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.