Quotes of: Jim Keyword

[Frank and Basie are about to leave Jim in the street] Jim: [desperately] Basie, first I could show you some rich pickings. Hundreds of houses left empty. I could show you some of the houses I lived in before Frank found me. They were luxuriant! Basi...

Empire of the Sun

Ryan Bingham: If you think about it, your favorite memories, the most important moments in your life... were you alone? Jim Miller: No, I guess not. Ryan Bingham: Hey, come to think of it, last night, the night before your wedding, when all this shit...

Up in the Air

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only s...

Shadow of the Almighty: The Life and Testament of Jim Elliot

But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a real kid brother, a real husband, a real wife. Jim wasn't a substitute for anything. And there is no substitute for Jim, if you'l...

A Single Man

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control

[last lines] Jim: [who still has his popcorn and soda from the Chinese Theater] Where you headed, cowboy? Bart: Nowhere special. Jim: Nowhere special? I always wanted to go there. Bart: Come on. [Jim mounts up and they ride off into the sunset... in ...

Blazing Saddles

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

Bono

I think the athletes respond well to me because I have been successful.

Linford Christie

What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.

Harold Prince

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Dirk Benedict

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

Jenny McCarthy

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.

Matt Mullenweg

If you were building a real-time game like one of Zynga's games, the WordPress model wouldn't work well for that.

Matt Mullenweg

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

Linford Christie

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

Harold Prince

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

Harold Prince

Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.

Bono

I coach a few guys and they work very, very hard, but in our day we did it because we just loved it.

Linford Christie

You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.

Matt Mullenweg

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

Bono

When you put a lot of hard work into one goal and you achieve it, that's a really good feeling.

Derek Jeter