Simmons Quotes

I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference. ~ Russell Simmons

Johnny sighed in the darkness. "I don't understand the exact purpose of the Keats Project or the other Old Earth analogs, but I suspect that it is part of a TechnoCore project going back at least seven standard centuries to realize the Ultimate Intelligence."
"The Ultimate Intelligence," I said, exhaling smoke. "Uh-huh. So the TechnoCore is trying to ... what? ... to build God."
"Yes. ~ Dan Simmons

I'd rather be a wolf than a girl any day. ~ Kristen Simmons

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it? ~ Dan Simmons

But at the heart of character is the ability to restrain our desires. As a man grows in character, he builds the muscles of self-restraint. ~ Richard E. Simmons III

The most aggressive views governing this country speak a lot about inclusion. We still have some people in this country who don't really get that we all have the same agenda, aspirations, hopes, and fears. I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them. ~ Russell Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions. ~ Charles Simmons

In his twenties, John Bridgens most identified with Hamlet. The strangely aging Prince of Denmark - Bridgens was quite sure that the boy Hamlet had magically aged over a few theatrical weeks to a man who was, at the very least, in his thirties by Act V - had been suspended between thought and deed, between motive and action, frozen by a consciousness so astute and unrelenting that it made him think about everything, even thought itself. ~ Dan Simmons

When I'm cooking for myself, I find that I eat almost completely vegetarian, although I'm not vegetarian. ~ Gail Simmons

His pain hurt me in a way I'd never felt before. It was worse than my own pain. My strength wavered. I felt completely powerless. ~ Kristen Simmons

Great books can be ruined by bad writers. ~ Travis Simmons

Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai. ~ Dan Simmons

My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that it's a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, "Aaaahhh," and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse. ~ Russell Simmons

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wearing extra-small Dolfin shorts, a tank top and leg warmers, I get a little upset. ~ Richard Simmons

My ma taught me one thing from the beginning: My body is mine. My own. No one else's. Just because somebody thinks they have rights to it, doesn't make it true. I thought I understood that before, but here, in this place, it's become more clear than ever how right she was. My flesh and blood–it's the only thing I own, and I'll defend it until I can't fight anymore. ~ Kristen Simmons

I promise I'll come back. No matter what happens." Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely.
"I'll wait for you," I told him. ~ Kristen Simmons

Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams. ~ Russell Simmons

Canada is a big part of my life. ~ Gail Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible. ~ Laurie Simmons

I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days. ~ Gail Simmons

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere. ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house. ~ Gail Simmons

Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me? ~ Patrick Simmons

If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall. ~ Russell Simmons

It was fucking wonderful. It was fucking hell. ~ Dan Simmons

When the love runs deeper than the pain, then you will see again."
-It Is You ~ Noah Thomas Simmons

I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan. ~ J.K. Simmons

People need the court jester, so I keep that smile on and keep going out there to do what I do. ~ Richard Simmons

Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious. ~ Gail Simmons

I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate. ~ Gail Simmons

I think teen girls will like 'Geek Charming' because they really focus on the 'populars' and nerdy people and people who are in between the nerds and between the populars. So it really hits every category of what girls are going through in high school. ~ Lili Simmons

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate. ~ Gene Simmons

The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions. ~ Russell Simmons

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man. ~ Charles Simmons

Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under. ~ Russell Simmons

You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back! ~ Richard Simmons

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with. ~ Roy Lichtenstein

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. ~ Dan Simmons

For a person born and raised into a world where information was always at hand, communication with anyone anywhere a given, and no distance more than a farcaster step away, this sudden regression to life as our ancestors had known it would be like suddenly awakening blind and crippled. ~ Dan Simmons

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop. ~ Gene Simmons

We're all in trouble, and we all need to sort of pick up the pieces and start to exercise more and really be careful with the food. ~ Richard Simmons

She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - ~ Dan Simmons

If you're lucky enough to have a parent or two alive, call them. Don't text, don't email. Call them. Listen to them for as long as they want to talk to you. ~ J.K. Simmons

If we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world will become, a more tolerant, loving place. ~ Russell Simmons

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing. ~ Bill Simmons

I am tired of this city. I am tired of its pagan pretensions and false histories. Hyperion is a poet's world devoid of poetry. Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy. ~ Dan Simmons

Most artists can't draw. ~ Roy Simmons

If you're feeling frumpy or grumpy, try to eat Paleo. It's a way of eating that is sometimes referred to as the 'Caveman Diet.' ~ Chelan Simmons

You'll see a lot of funny stuff, you'll see a lot of daddy-knows-best stuff, you'll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together. ~ Russell Simmons

Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice. ~ Russell Simmons

Ember, you're the only piece of me I have left. Everything else-my family, my home, my soul- they're all gone. I don't know who the hell I am anymore. If it weren't for you ... I don't know. ~ Kristen Simmons

Be encouraged. Stay on your hustle. You can't fail until u quit. ~ Russell Simmons

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk. ~ Gene Simmons

Don't be so concerned about the size of your next step ... The direction is what matters! ~ Joseph Simmons

I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich but don't nobody wanna work for it. ~ Yo Gotti

Fate and victory shift ... now this way, now that way
like a line of unarmored men under a hail of enemy arrows. ~ Dan Simmons

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me. ~ Richard Simmons

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day. ~ Richard Simmons

We all retreat into ourselves in some way. ~ Dan Simmons

Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy. ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

[A less-enlightened personage once asked Ummon What is the God-nature/Buddha/Central Truth> Ummon answered him A dried shit-stick] ~ Dan Simmons

The powerful have received their share of the world's attention even when their power has been shown as sheer evil. The victim's remain the faceless masses. Numbers. Mass graves. These monsters have fertilized our century with the mass graves of their victims and it is time that the powerless had names and faces
and voices. ~ Dan Simmons

Hell is also the memory of starving children in the slums of Armaghast and the smile of politicians sending boys off to die in colonial wars. ~ Dan Simmons

It has been my experience that immediately after certain traumatic separations - leaving one's family to go to war, for instance, or upon the death of a family member, or after parting from one's beloved with no assurances of reunion - there is a strange calmness, almost a sense of relief, as if the worst has happened and nothing else need be dreaded. ~ Dan Simmons

Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note. ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

Here's the deal. Willi's bought the rights to a paperback best-seller called The White Slaver. It's a piece of formulized shit written for illiterate fourteen-year-olds and the kind of lobotomized housewife that lines up to buy the new Harlequin romances each month. Jack-off material for intellectual quadriplegics. Naturally ~ Dan Simmons

asked me if I loved him. Should've told him the truth. That I ain't know enough about myself to love anybody. That I wasn't even sure I had it in me. Maybe folks were born with a specific reserve of love inside them and maybe mine was all used up. But instead of saying any of that I just said, "'Of course I do. ~ D. Bryant Simmons

Sol, listen," came the Voice, modulated now so it did not boom from far above but almost whispered in his ear, "the future of humankind depends upon your choice. Can you offer Rachel out of love, if not obedience?" Sol heard the answer in his mind even as he groped for the words. There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its long search for God. He thought of the many centuries in which his people, the Jews, had negotiated with God, complaining, bickering, decrying the unfairness of things but always - always - returning to obedience at whatever the cost. Generations dying in the ovens of hatred. Future generations scarred by the cold fires of radiation and renewed hatred. Not this time. Not ever again. ~ Dan Simmons

How cold and foreign this city seemed, that even death could pass unnoticed. ~ Kristen Simmons

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make. ~ Gene Simmons

Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents ... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little. ~ Richard Simmons

You think I don't want you? Goddamn it, Spencer," he bites. "I want you so much I can't fucking breathe when I'm without you. ~ L.B. Simmons

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through. ~ Richard Simmons

I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan. ~ Dan Simmons

Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans. ~ Gene Simmons

We don't realize how much the NFL is quietly drifting towards flag football. During the '80s, part of the defense's goal was to put the fear of God into offensive players ... that's fading away. ~ Bill Simmons

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced. ~ Charles Simmons

The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it. ~ Russell Simmons

After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion: any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. ~ Dan Simmons

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success. ~ Russell Simmons

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life. ~ Gene Simmons

People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth. ~ Laurie Simmons

Who are you, Hockenberry, to thwart Fate and defy the Will of the Gods?
I am me, Thomas Hockenberry. I am fed up with these power-addled thugs who call themselves gods. ~ Dan Simmons

If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract. ~ Russell Simmons

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life. ~ Ruth Simmons

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s. ~ Gene Simmons

Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine. ~ Sylvie Simmons

You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you! ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

I was thinking about how free of mobs recent centuries had been: to create a mob there must be public meetings, and public meetings in our time consisted of individuals communing via the All Thing or other datasphere channels; it is hard to create mob passion when people are separated by kilometers and light-years, connected only by comm lines and fatline threads. ~ Dan Simmons

I would rather have one night with you, than to live the rest of my life with the possibility of never being able to experience loving another person the way that I love you. ~ L.B. Simmons

The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows. But there are other voices to be heard. There are other songs to be sung. ~ Dan Simmons

Later, when the battles are won and the world is theirs, I will tell them about her. I will sing to them of Siri. ~ Dan Simmons

Oh, Myrtle, don't be didactic. It's not becoming in a young girl. Besides, men loathe it. ~ Veta Louise Simmons

You are one of a kind and unique. Never forget that. ~ Richard Simmons

When people ask me about what made the biggest difference in my healing, I tell them that I was believed and tremendously loved. I never felt blamed or shamed into silence. ~ Aishah Shahidah Simmons

I don't apologize for my diamonds, Rolls-Royce, Range Rover, or anything. Look, Queen Elizabeth has more diamonds than me. Why don't people attack her for it? ~ Kimora Lee Simmons

It's my life dream to be able to go and continue going to schools and teaching them about stretching and aerobics, cardio and strength training, because I want them to have a better life than I did. I don't want them to grow up to be me. I want them to be healthy. I want them not to go through eating disorders [like me]. ~ Richard Simmons

Time sure kicks the shit out of people... ~ Dan Simmons

Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty
Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty. ~ Russell Simmons

I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that. ~ Russell Simmons