Jerry Quotes

The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

[The NBA] used to be a small band of basketball groupies. Now there are a lot more corporate-type people working in the league.

The only thing I care about is winning. That's all. If you don't want to win, you don't want to be around me.

When the entire process becomes a prescribed ritual that does not allow for spontaneous variations and reactions, the vitality of the medium and our relation to it suffers.

Only about half of all commercials actually work.

Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.

Love is great for us, but we don't always love who is great for us.

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

God’s plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don’t understand.

I like any cereal. I like the idea of just eating and drinking with one hand without looking.

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising.

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

We must allow the Bible to say what is says, not what we think it ought to say.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

And Kansas City is at Chicago tonight, or is it Chicago at Kansas City? Well, no matter as Kansas City leads in the eighth 4 to 4.

Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

I think that America is in danger of losing its adventurous spirit in the cause of some kind of illusion of safety, or substitute of law and order there.

Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number.

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican?

While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths.

Cats on the bandstand, give them each a big hand, anyone who sweats like that must be all right.

Love provides the motive for obeying the commands of the law, but the law provides specific direction for exercising love.

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

If he's going to be the counterfeit of Christ, the Antichrist has to be Jewish. The only thing we know is he must be male and Jewish.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.

And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

America will be disadvantaged, just like Detroit was disadvantaged when they couldn't build smaller cars in the '70s or '80s. The world shifts.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.

To live by grace is to live solely by the merit of Jesus Christ. To live by grace is to base my entire relationship with God, including my acceptance and standing with Him, on my union with Christ.

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person?

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

What is this obsession people have with books? They put them in their houses like they're trophies. What do you need it for after you read it?

I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

Many girls have been romanced under the moon, and I don’t mean to say moonlight is overrated, but few I think have known the magic of a sunrise kiss.

Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal.

Beware of solipsism Funny word. Sounds like it means "love of melons" or something. I looked it up. It means believing that "the self is the only reality." Am I solipsist?

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.