Jerry Quotes

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

What if you could find brand new worlds, right here on Earth, where anything is possible? Same planet, different dimension. I've found the gateway.

I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

We know as filmmakers where you draw the line.

After you get a job and before you have to do it. Nothing beats that.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.

The human body is like a condominium. The thing that keeps you from really enjoying it is the maintenance.

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

In my world, the wronger something feels, the righter it is.

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

I don't want to hear the specials. If they're so special, put 'em on the menu.

I honestly believe that advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father's attention.

I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.

If you are going to develop beast technology, you want to start by having cage technology. You want to make the rules first, you know.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.

We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

In this universe the top end is light and the bottom end is real hard stuff.

Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.

Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.

I have a problem with the strip that runs along the bottom of the news programs. Don't these idiots who run the news programs know we don't want to read? That's why we're watching TV.

Times change and you have to adapt.

I ask myself why I do it [work]. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

Do not get attatched to the world as it is. Because the world is changing something new is coming.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

I have done a lot of theater.

It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.

It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

I hope to see the day when, as in the early days of our country, we don't have public schools. The churches will have taken them over again and Christians will be running them.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

There's a need for a ritual and for real joy and real bliss. Real fun.