Jim Quotes

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.

The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.

Houston, we've had a problem.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

The Internet is not just one thing, it's a collection of things - of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

If you're not willing to work, you're never going to be able to experience the American Dream.

One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.

From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle we just decided to go.

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.

With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?

Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

You just have to speak up. You just have to say, 'I would like to do this, ' and it's amazing what people who listen can do for you.

It is up to God to take revenge. Only God can judge. I don't have to worry about getting even with anybody or taking out any kind of aggression on anybody. Doing that is a weakness, anyway.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.

Without true medical liability reform, our doctors will continue to leave, and young doctors coming out of medical school $100, 000 to $200, 000 in debt will not be able to afford such onerous costs.

What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.

I felt that, in some ways, my novels lacked heart because of the distance between me and the subject matter. But no one wants to read a book based on good health, a happy upbringing, a long marriage.

Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.

We have been blessed with a healthy, growing economy, with more Americans going back to work, and with our Nation acting as a positive force for good in the world.

I decided to design and build my own stereo amplifier system at age 13.

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

I don't trust anybody that doesn't do good work. I don't give them any credibility. If they can't write, why should I believe anything they have to say?

Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution.

The people who are buying stocks because they're going up and they don't know what they do deserve to lose money.

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money.

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.

I'd always been quite wary of doing a romantic comedy. They all seem the same to me.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.

It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.

Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.