Jerry Quotes

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.

Every day that we're not practicing godliness we're being conformed to the world of ungodliness around us.

This was the ghetto: where children grow down instead of up.

I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.

I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

What you do is more important than how much you make, and how you feel about it is more important than what you do.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied.

Life is supposed to be lived for God and for others.

We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.

Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.

Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God

Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

I guess I harboured hopes that things would happen more quickly, but I'm not disappointed.

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

If you support the community, they will support you.

Taking significant amounts of carbon out of our economy without harming its vibrancy is exactly the sort of challenge at which California excels.

My dream remains to inform and entertain through fiction in the form of novels and movies that compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.

I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.

Our strong suit is what we do, and our audience.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.

Now there is no place you can go where you don't hear certain types of music.

A man may smile and bid you hail Yet wish you to the devil; But when a good dog wags his tail, You know he's on the level.

Children are for people who can't have dogs.

I feel like I'm playing chess underwater. The pieces keep floating away. I don't know where things are. I can't figure out tomorrow.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

You can measure distance by time. 'How far away is it?' 'Oh about 20 minutes.' But it doesn't work the other way. 'When do you get off work?' 'Around 3 miles.'

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.