Jim Quotes

What's good and bad, sweet spirit, are in the eye of the beholder.

As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.

If anything, I've probably tended more toward humor in my writing and veered more toward pleasure in my personal life.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

I'm developing a mild rash at the idea of "plugging" anything, because it's not how I roll.

People can be so heartless and dirty.

I'm still an obsessive personality, and I still think I'm right, and I still believe my literary balls hang far lower than nearly anyone else's alive.

I don't think it's entirely paranoid to suspect that one day, you won't be able to so much as question the primary tenets of anti-racism without going to jail.

Unlike the vast majority of people, I've been locked in a box like an animal and I've also been on the receiving end of bloody thrashings, so I feel uniquely qualified to judge which is worse.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

I've noticed that if you spend ten years without shooting dope, people consider you an ex-junkie, but one never is considered an 'ex-woman-beater.'

I'm the only convict who couldn't get into Australia.

I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me.

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

I believe that to some degree there are situational and psychological laws of cause-and-effect, but I don't believe there's some Über-soul who doles out "justice."

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

I never want to think or write about the topic again when I'm finished with it.

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor that men do.

You have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.

Before I even took pictures I knew that I wanted to have them as hard copy memories.

I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.

The artist had captured a moment that went on suggesting other moments in the mind of the beholder. This, Timmon told me, was what every painter, every singer, every craftsman sought to create.

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

Memory calls us back, Mystery draws us forward.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew I needed God in my life.

My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

I was running from God, but I didn't know I was running from God. I didn't know that.

My dad was a good man but an emotionally absent father, and so I had to look for that male attention somewhere else, and found it in a brother-in-law. He just happened to be an alcoholic.

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.

Some people say 'Why is a football coach concerned?' I explained I'm an American first and all Americans should care about justice.

I have the best wife and six wonderful children. And I'm proud to report that my future will always be bright with the family that I have.

When we die we are only stories in the minds of others, I thought

I'd rather get a brain tumor than go back to teaching.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I do have trouble with titles.

So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.

Because most writers have totally unrealistic concepts of how publishing works.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several of them.

Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

Some of these rich folks seem to think that everything belongs to them and they'll even get to take it with them when they die. But you know what? You don't ever see a hearse pulling a U Haul.

If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

Ronald Reagan's idea of a good farm program was Hee Haw.