Jerry Quotes

If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician. If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.

Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.

Five days a week my body is a temple; the other two, it's an amusement park.

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

You haven't lived until you've basked in the adoration of people.

Home is everything you can walk to.

The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

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.

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.

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 all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.

I had a dream last night that a hamburger was eating me.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

My father was an agnostic.

You know how your charger for your phone? It's like if you had a charger for your whole body and mind

Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

I've made a couple of mistakes I'd like to do over.

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is not by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay.

I've never seen a game like this. Every game this year has been like this.

There are many players who don't measure up to their marketability.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

Be a sponge. Spend as much time as possible with people who truly know their craft and be a great listener. That is how you learn.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

The sun will shine in my back door one day.

Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning.

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason employs reason!

Pay attention; don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.

Rich Folkers is throwing 'em up in the bullpen.

The purpose of God's discipline is not to punish us but to transform us.