Jim Famous Quotes
"When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets"
"It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago."
"Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future."
The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
"Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18."
Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.
Jim Quotations
"I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye."
Leonard
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
Ernest Hemingway
"The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer... He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen."
Robert L Schwartz
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton
What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
William Zinsser
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
Edwin Conklin
"Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe."
Flannery O Connor
Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.
Albert Einstein
"To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
Robert Anson Heinlein
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Giuseppe Garibaldi