J. Robbins Quotes

All dreams continue in the beyond.

Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.

The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind.

If you want your tree to produce plenty o' fruit, you've got to cut it back from time to time. Same thing with your neural cells. Some people might call it brain damage. I call it prunin'.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

Gods and men create one another, destroy one another, though by different means.

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

They fell asleep smiling. It is to erase the fixed smiles of sleeping couples that Satan trained roosters to crow at five in the morning.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

The aging aren't only the old; the aging are all of us.

Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

There are a few artists that I'm really into. I mean, I'm a big Nick Cave fan. And there's a band from Australia called Big Heavy Stuff that's one of my favorite bands ever.

It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.

When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

Tim [Omundson] is just so wonderfully delicious. He has the sexiest beard on television. He's such a fabulous actor, and a great character.

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

The Grammys thing doesn't even touch my world at all.

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

Who's got the most heartbreaking voice? I don't know. Tough question.

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

I'm no good at predicting what will endure with people. I only know what speaks to me.

Another cultural thing that's really creepy. It's not like in the '60s, where there were definitely great high points of creativity where people were trying to outdo each other to be noticed even.

For most of the projects I've worked on, I've been entrusted with some degree of musical responsibility, even if it's just like coaching for vocals and stuff.

I worry about financial security, and the older I get the more I worry about it.

I'm the kind of person that, as a listener, will go the extra mile to interpret something that's fairly meaningless, or that might be meaningless.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.

I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into.

Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable.

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

Dream of a society at peace with its conscience because it respects and lives in harmony with all life forms.

I decided at age 5 to start acting and I have never wanted to do anything else.

The true badge of courage is overcoming the fear of men.

Ever notice how seldom we lose control when frustrated by our boss, but how often we do when annoyed by friends or family?

Talent is being able to please people.

Education does loads of things for girls that wont surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying.

Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust.

I had been unaware that baseball was a Republican sport.

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.

I don't want people to be inspired or offended by what I do. If you determine your behavior by what [other people] want, you're screwed.

Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

I couldn't care less about being a presenter at the Oscars.

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.