Jerry Quotes

If you do the best work you can, the reward is ultimately your self-satisfaction - the sense that you have done the best you can. And then there's that piece of how others respond.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.

The government is becoming the family of last resort.

Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often think about social and environmental impact because they're focused on their financial bottom line.

We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God's heart.

I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

I think of many of my photographs as being obviously symbolic but not symbolically obvious. There isn't any specific correlation between the symbols in this image and any content that I have in mind.

The community owes us nothing. It's up to us to go out and earn their respect.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

What's the point of dating without games? How do you know if you're winning or losing?

We had a sense of importance that would have led us to risk our lives for our rhetoric.

Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

I see TV ads about detergents that can get blood stains out of your cloths. I say if you have blood stains on your cloths you should be thinking about something other than laundry.

Allah is not Jehovah either. Jehovah's not going to turn you into a terrorist that'll try to bomb people and take the lives of thousands and thousands of people.

I shave without using shaving cream.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

I'll tell you one thing, since I'm married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

I have a big collection of quotation programs...In particular, I like MCR Software's Wisdom of the Ages, which has the best selection of relevant quotes I know.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

I feel the calmest when I'm drawing or when I'm creating images. I love connecting the mind with the hand and producing something - that is very comforting and centering for me.

All I ever wanted to do is make people laugh.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.

I always wanted the ball in my hands with a game on the line, as I think any real competitor does.

As we search the Scriptures, we must allow them to search us, to sit in judgment upon our character and conduct.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here - they are here to replace us.

Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now.

If you are picking the lesser of two evils, you are still picking Evil.

There's nothing wrong with being an anarchist.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.