J. S. Gibbons Quotes

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

The blackness of darkness, forever.

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it.

The blues is life itself.

I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.

We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

Like an actor who transforms into the character that they're playing, you can transform into yourself.

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.

I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

Theres a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.

No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

In God’s economy, vision should move from the fringes to the middle.

There's a thing with genre movies and science fiction movies that number two is the charmed; two seems to be the best. I loved 'Terminator 2.'

I think with something like Watchmen you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

There were no exceptions for the aged, the ill, the women in pregnancy.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it.

I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.

Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling.

Art without heart is craft.

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.