S.J. Watson Quotes

The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

The American public is being sold a very nasty bill of goods about cancer.

I am thrilled to see my genome.

(The National Cancer Program is) a bunch of (obscenity).

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.

I have been much blessed.

There are many people of color who are very talented.

Some think there is something wrong about enhancing people.

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

Actually, I'm a strong supporter of comprehensive tax reform.

Price creates incentive, and energy will be developed if there's demand for it at the price you can develop it.

Despite some struggles of our own, Americas business and economic system remains the envy of much of the world.

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or biology or business?" My answer is music, drama, journalism, communications.

I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.

We go after unlawful activities.

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Everybody is a hypocrite. You can't live on this planet without being a hypocrite.

This isn't a hunt that's going to kill just four or five gray whales. The repercussions of this will have an effect on tens of thousands of whales that will be killed by the Japanese and Norwegians.

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

I’ve got no criminal record.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

In my writing I hope to have a balance between the good and bad, the hard and soft.

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

I have always known that I wanted to work with youth through the arts and I believe the arts can help young people cope with hardship.

There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the top of the list.

For me, the lives of children and teens are interesting - they are always changing. There's just so much to sort through. All of this makes for good plots and complex characters.

Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ.

The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.

Since ancient Time began, Ever on some great soul God laid an infinite burden-- The weight of all this world, the hopes of man, Conflict and pain, and fame immortal are his guerdon.

Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied; "You need a heart.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Work. Write. Read. Keep putting words on the page, because that's the only way you'll get better.

There are memories I a better off without. Things better lost forever.

‎"Is it possible to both want and not want something at the same time? For desire to ride with fear?

There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.

I am an adult, but a damaged one.

I will never abandon you. I love you too much.