S. Jones Quotes

The only rules not meant to be broken are those of love and virtue.

I never was very big on praying for victory. For God to give a big win to the Denver Broncos, wouldn't He have to take it away from somebody else, say, the Green Bay Packers?

There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

I reserve the right to change my mind. But once I decide on something, I'm going to need a good reason to switch.

The problem a guy who lies all the time faces is he never can tell when anybody else is telling the truth.

If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

First, you've got to get the job. "Yeah, I can do it," I would say. When I was a kid, I could do anything. Lucky nobody ever asked me if I could fly a jet plane.

A nation that spends billions to fix international problems will not have much left over for the victims of tornadoes in Oklahoma.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me.

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.

I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants.

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'

I want everybody to travel, to travel and not be afraid.

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?

Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.

I mean at the world as a checklist. Once you got to a place, you check them off and if you love the spot, you might check it off twice. You'll always find your way to go back to those places.

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places.

For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll just find my way through. And that's what I always did. I never changed too much of that.

A fickle heart is the only constant in this world

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.

He scarcely saw his parents. When Christopher was small, he was terrified that he would meet Papa out walking in the Park one day and not recognize him.

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person.

When have you looked?" said Sophie. "Oh, how your rears flap and your long nose twitches", Howl croaked.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.

One does not want glory accepted as a matter of course. One wants to shock and astonish people with it.

Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like wicked stepmothers. Every day.

Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it!

I'll show you how," Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

I don’t think I will get married,” Polly said as she stood up. “I’m going to train to be a hero instead.

As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.

It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked the fire. [...] “Naturally I don’t,” Sophie answered.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

Left Eye, man...who else has more personality than Left Eye?

I have a Twitter and have followers from all over the world. It's pretty overwhelming.

I did get to go to the Olympic trials in '88 and '92. I was 7th and 11th, so I didn't place high enough to go to the games, but, still, it was a blast.

It never occurred to me that I was hired because I was black. But it did occur to me that because I was black it would give a different historic element to the film.

I think that idea of being far away from the people that you love is something that everyone can relate to.

I'm a cruel man to myself.