Jim Manitoba Quotes

Afterwards, over drinks, one of the barbarians asked me what I dreamt of. I, of course, was taken aback. They say barbarians don't dream. But I told him ... "I dream of tangible nothing," I said.
"So you mean nothing as something, then?" the barbarian replied over the rim of his gin-and-tonic.
"I mean unity, dissolving into non-self," I said, just to be confusing. ~ James Curcio

You ever read an article, and at the bottom, it says, 'Continued on page six'? I'm , 'Not for me. I'm done.' ~ Jim Gaffigan

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work. ~ Jim Rash

Did you run any of this by Curran?"
"I told him I was about to do something idiotic and dangerous, and he told me to go ahead and let him know if he could help in any way."
"I don't understand your relationship. ~ Ilona Andrews

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out. ~ Jim Crace

I was a Knicks fan of the Kenny Sears-Carl Braun-Jim Baechtold vintage. I was even their ball boy when I was a teenager. ~ Marv Albert

Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of the alluring sirens, the hungry ogresses, the savage she-beasts. Think of them and remember that somewhere, sometime, they've all been real.
Mab gave them lessons. ~ Jim Butcher

I want to eradicate poverty. I think that there's a tremendous passion for that inside the World Bank. ~ Jim Yong Kim

I had time to think, though I wasn't sure I wanted to. ~ Jim Butcher

Better safe than exsanguinated. ~ Jim Butcher

People think that coaches are always right, but it's difficult to teach a runner how to run, because every runner is different. You have to have an understanding of how to assist what that runner has, so they know how to assist what you have without taking away your special ability, because you're not like anybody else. ~ Jim Brown

I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake. ~ Jim Nussle

It's in our nature to make a religion, so to speak, out of anything we don't understand, but it is simply advanced technology. ~ Jim Sparks

It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don't think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.'
'Aha. It's a loup cage.' Andrea cleared her throat. 'I touched it with my finger and it hurt. Is that in case of marital problems? ~ Ilona Andrews

The fact is, the media never gets off the interstate unless there's a major explosion. ~ Jim Harrison

That underlay the city of Chicago. ~ Jim Butcher

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer. ~ Jim Gaffigan

Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim [Lauderdale] in that I think the really good ones are songs that when you hear it [sic] ... there's just something about it that touches your heart, and you don't know why. ~ Jorma Kaukonen

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was. ~ Jim Harrison

Heroines in dramas, Bridget felt, really ought to have more sense. ~ Jim Butcher

the Dallas Police Department felt that, in Lee Harvey Oswald, it had a good catch. ~ Jim Bishop

If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country or at the wrong time. It simply means that you have the wrong plan. ~ Jim Rohn

If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house? ~ Jim Gaffigan

The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the darkAnd we may lose everything in the windBut the Northern Lights are burningAnd they're giving off sparks. ~ Jim Steinman

Death is only frightening from the near side. ~ Jim Butcher

I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I cultivate, and one of my interests is not getting too used to things. I've sacrificed a lot of things in my life in order to keep that sense of things being unfamiliar. ~ Jim Woodring

I always look for reality. I look for plain truthful roles. ~ Jim Caviezel

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us. ~ Patrick Swayze

How is it that Christians today will pay $20 to hear the latest Christian artist in concert, but Jesus can't draw a crowd? ~ Jim Cymbala

We thought it would be fun to try to design a show that would work well internationally and so that' s what we're intending to do with Fraggle Rock, and we are indeed now selling it around the world. ~ Jim Henson

The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching. ~ Jim Afremow

As we know, Clay Shaw was acquitted, and the establishment celebrated
another victory over the truth. In my view, Ferrie, Banister, Shaw, and Jack
Ruby would have been the conspirators Oswald worked with personally, on
the ground level, while far more powerful forces manipulated everything
behind the scenes. I share Jim Garrison's theory that Oswald was some kind
of intelligence operative who was assigned to infiltrate what he was told was
a plot to kill the president, shortly before the actual assassination. At least
that's where I think the evidence logically leads. ~ Donald Jeffries

I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry. ~ Jim C. Hines

I married a woman who loves to camp, and I am what you would call "indoorsy" ... My wife always brings up, "Camping's a tradition in my family." Hey, it was a tradition in everyone's family 'til we came up with the house. ~ Jim Gaffigan

I notice my wife when she's on the phone with her friends, man they will share every animate details of their lives with each other. See men once we become friends with another man we may never say another word to him, unless there's valuable information that needs to be exchanged. Things like "Hey Jim, your shirt's on fire." ~ Jeff Foxworthy

My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft. ~ Adam Hicks

There is the intent of the writer and the interpretation by the artist. What the writer intended and what the artist interprets is not a 1-to-1 translation. It's a crossing of ideas that generates the stories that you see in print. ~ Jim Lee

Although many seniors are happy with the generous drug coverage they have from their former employers, the number of companies offering that kind of coverage has decreased by one-third since the mid-1980s. ~ Jim Gerlach

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing. ~ Jim Cummings

But be very, very careful, because when you're playing with momentum, you're playing with fire. ~ Jim Cramer

Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the tooth Fairy are creatures in which every child has absolute faith until it is utterly destroyed by adults who burst the bubble and explain the truth. God is the one imaginary friend that many never grow out of; and all because no one tells them the truth before it is too late and the delusion becomes their reality. ~ Jim Whitefield

Short things are short all over and long things are long all over. ~ Jim Harrison

Approaching the Start of Civil Exams

Perhaps I was once a young Chinese scholar
approaching the start of civil exams,
my mind grown weary and sad from seclusion
with books on syntax and poetic style.

All that I knew were the mist-covered mountains
and sweet white blossoms of mountain apples
that grew in the valleys of my province.

But I had been gone over six years
busy with studies in the Heavenly City
empty and thin despite my work.

I showed my verses to an older poet
who told me a truth I longed to believe:
all knowledge is futile and barren
which does not open the love of your friends. ~ Jim Chapson

If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. ~ Lorin Stein

Just like credit card companies, or those student loan people. Now there's evil for you. ~ Jim Butcher

As long as people want the Mormon Church to be true,
more than they are willing to face the possibility that it is not,
they will not entertain evidence or reason.
Delusion becomes a choice. ~ Jim Whitefield