Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Harrison

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

Jerry Rice

My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'

Jerry Reed

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl began to improvise. She flung her arms to a make-believe crowd like a celebrity on parade. She waggled her fingers at the stars. She churned her fists like an egg-beater. Every action echoed down the line behind her. The three hops of the bunny became three struts of a vaudeville vamp. Then a penguin waddle. Then tippy-toed priss. Every new move brought new laughter from the line.

Jerry Spinelli

Star people are rare.

Jerry Spinelli

She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.

Jerry Spinelli

Tell me I didn't imagine it, Leo. Tell me that even though our bodies were in seperate states, our star selves shared an enchanted place. Tell me that right around noon today (eastern time) you had the strangest sensation: a tiny chill on your shoulder...a flutter in the heart...a shadow of strawberry-banana crossing your tongue...tell me you whispered my name.

Jerry Spinelli

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly alone, passing, smiling, holding each other's eyes, floors and walls gone, two people in a universe of space and stars.

Jerome K. Jerome

After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!

Jim Elliot

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.

Jim Gaffigan

I don't want to be a TV star for the sake of being on TV. I want to have a TV show that's based around my comedy.

Jim Gaffigan

I personally have no interest in being a star or a celebrity. I want my stand-up comedy and how I think as a comedian to be recognized and successful.

Jesse McCartney

Bono is my inspiration - not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren't just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it's because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

Jesse McCartney

My biggest hero when I was a kid was Will Smith. I used to watch 'Fresh Prince,' and I was a huge fan of his albums. I bought all of his albums when I was a kid. Now, he is the biggest movie star in the world.

Jesse Jackson

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

Jennifer O'Neill

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

Scottie Reynolds

Everything from McDonald's to all the all star games, I give thanks to my coaches, my teammates, the fans, everything.

Even if the refineries are OK, they could be starved of their imports.

Everything's just starting to come together for me.

You look at Barbara, Will, all of us, this is when Connecticut starts to play. When the tournaments come, this is when we always play our best.

When the Sun Clearest shineth Serenest in the heaven, Quickly are obscured All over the earth Other stars.

We are at a better starting place than Sweetwater was.

We are off to a strong start in 2006.

I started out bad, ... You know what you have to shoot. This was disappointing, to start out that way and end that way.

I start with 'stir' and then I do 'liquefy.

Kelvin Sampson

I see this as something like a snowball. Get it rolling, and it's got to start somewhere.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

is going to wear for a while and then I think we're going to get back to a real campaign. ... We're going to have to start talking about issues.

Colin Montgomerie

I used to say I'm here to win. Now I say I'd like to win. But I have to start winning.

Darren Sproles

I use it as motivation, ... I'll always use it as motivation, even if I start getting respect. It's something I'll always use.

Dave Matthews

Things are starting to turn into a windfall for us. We don't take these firsts for granted.

Things are starting to change. We're getting a lot of big-time recruits here.

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.