Jim Shrapshire Quotes

Have you called the alphas?"
"Yes."
"The rats, too?"
He bristled. "What about the rats?"
"They think you're hiding information from them"
"I hide information from everyone. Do they think they're special? ~ Ilona Andrews

In my judgment, my buildings are considerably less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan. ~ Jim Butcher

People are too worried a lot of times what other people in the audience are going to think about them, so they like to feign offense so other people don't think that they're inappropriate for laughing at something. ~ Jim Norton

Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process ... Enjoy! ~ Jim Bouchard

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence. ~ Jim Goldberg

Never again. Tell them that. Never again. Or Hell itself will not hide you from me. ~ Jim Butcher

Kestus idly added theoretical torture to the theoretical murder, because done right, it might be funny. ~ Jim Butcher

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering. ~ Jim Caviezel

The word he used was coup, and I'm not speaking French just to arouse you. ~ Jim Lynch

[Superman and Lois are] kindred spirits, and they always choose to do the right thing. ~ Jim Lee

In order to figure this artmaking stuff out, it's trial and error and experimentation, and takes some time and hard thinking. Putting work out in many forms and stages is an extension of how I see things. I feel the art process is best served when it invites comments and constructive criticism from people. ~ Jim Goldberg

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey. ~ Jim Fowler

I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist. ~ Jim Oberweis

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded. ~ Jim Gaffigan

Everyone was thinking it was going to be a bust. I felt redeemed. ~ Jim Caviezel

Sgt. Basilone in his personal humility and unwavering dedication to the men who served with him, became a true hero of the American people during World War II. ~ Jim Proser

I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fight, as gentlemen o' fortune should; then, by thunder, you'll obey, and you may lay to it! I like that boy, now; I never seen a better boy than that. He's more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house, and what I say is this: let me see him that'll lay a hand on him
that's what I say, and you may lay to it. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

You know, my point in being an actor is to get people to believe that this is not about me, but something else. ~ Jim Caviezel

When project leaders focus on delivery, they add value to projects. When they focus on planning and control, they tend to add overhead. ~ Jim Highsmith

Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow. ~ Lani Guinier

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out. ~ Jim Hamilton

Get inside information from the president and you will probably lose half your money. If you get it from the chairman of the board, you will lose all of your money. ~ Jim Rogers

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything. ~ Jim Tressel

Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the industry leaders in that everything you do is scrutinized and watched. ~ Jim Lee

By the time 'Dumbo's Circus' wrapped production of its 120 episodes, I had an agent, and I had scored my first feature film gig. ~ Jim Cummings

now, I still didn't have enough money to pay for all the repairs, and I had set out to fix the door on my own. I hadn't framed it very well, but I try to think positive: The new door was arguably even more secure than the old one - now you could barely get the damned thing open even when it wasn't locked. ~ Jim Butcher

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~ Jim Bouton

Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers. ~ Ian Astbury

When I was ten years old I was actually given McDonald's gift certificates for Christmas by my mom. Yes, my own mother. I guess she couldn't find gift certificates for a vending machine. I like to think it was her way of saying, "Merry Christmas. Here are some coupons for poison." McDonald's introduced the gift certificate prior to the obesity epidemic. I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious. ~ Jim Gaffigan

Fuck it," said Private First Class Chris Barnes, raising his hand. "Let's do it. This sounds like a great fucking idea. Who wants to get blown up?" They started laughing. Watt, Barker, Cortez, and Private First Class Shane Hoeck all raised their hands. They did not give a damn anymore. It was all so absurd to them, that they were going to drive up and down a road for the next eight hours as bomb magnets. The only thing that they could do was laugh. "Hooray! We're going out to get blown up!" they sang. "Who's on board? Hey, who wants to come get blown up? Woohoo! Yeah, dude, I am ready to go fucking die! We are all going to fucking die! ~ Jim Frederick

I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway. ~ Jim Brown

You ever talk to an old person? I mean a really, really old person. They always have this exhausted look on their face that says, I can't believe I'm still here! I would've eaten so much more ice cream. Why did I ever consume kale? ~ Jim Gaffigan

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives. ~ Jim Gaffigan

Guys can look like pigs. The girl always has to be a looker. Look at most TV shows: According To Jim - pig and a looker. Still Standing - pig and a looker. Ralph Kramden [on The Honeymooners] - pig and a looker. Family Guy - pig and a looker. It's a theme. ~ Alex Borstein

When I hear the word 'independent' I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film. Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore. ~ Jim Jarmusch

Best car England ever made,' was how Jim had introduced his car. 'Out of production, thanks to socialism. ~ Anonymous

Stunner! Stunner! He got all of it by God! ~ Jim Ross

Pete Rose gets banned for life for gambling while the drug addicts are allowed back after a year; and then they get extra chances after that. Baseball is saying, in effect, that gambling is worse than drugs. How do kids make sense out of that? ~ Jim Bouton