Jim Adkins Quotes & Sayings

The weirdest thing in the world is to see some guy who is just super earnest. — Johnny Depp

Every morning is a big, bright, window that opens just for you to fill your life with the light of joy. — Debasish Mridha

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood. — Alain Robbe-Grillet

What fragment of truth will be mine? — Lia Hills

Let no act be done without a purpose, nor otherwise than according to the perfect principles of art. — Marcus Aurelius

Religious people are not fun ... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun ... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to parties and the religious people don't. — Mark Driscoll

The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches. — Greg Rusedski

I allow my creativity to push me in directions that are simply interesting to me and I don't worry about the likeness of the result to some notion - some paradigm - of what music composition is supposed to be. — Mark Applebaum

There is likely to be a lag between the need for action and government ["an individual's" or "a team's"] recognition of the need; a further lag between recognition of the need for action and the taking of action; and a still further lag between the action and its effects — Milton Friedman

Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again. — Elizabeth Lesser

Your imagination and thoughts give you power. — Debasish Mridha

You see 6,000 times more tech companies in San Francisco than you see in Seattle. All the money is in San Francisco when you look at the venture fund maps. The PR is in San Francisco. The centricity of the industry is in San Francisco. — Robert Scoble

For us what was killing was how nothing had changed. We'd been waiting to be transformed, and now here we were, back in our old life. — Elizabeth McCracken

My mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw — Charles Bukowski