Jim Bowers Quotes & Sayings

Simplicity is no longer presented as a virtue. The value of complex and difficult language has been preached with such insistence that the public has begun to believe the lack of clarity must be a sign of artistic talent. — John Ralston Saul

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us. — Lindsey Buckingham

You should be able to criticize civil servants for what you think is wrongdoing without being painted as a cop-hater. I don't feel the police are all corrupt, however I do feel they are suffering from institutional racism and there needs to be a top-to-bottom examination of the way they practice and the way they criminalize young black and brown males. The fact that they seem to have backed off from it seems to suggest they realize they overreacted on me and it looks bad. — Quentin Tarantino

Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong. — Francis Of Assisi

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right. — Thomas H. Cook

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Even though people are under economic pressure, they still want to support those brands with values that are compatible with their own. — Howard Schultz

Stop sketching. Start building. — Dennis Crowley

I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy.
Yeah right. — Gena Showalter

Life is beautiful so it encourages me to smile. I smile at life to make it beautiful. — Debasish Mridha

I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same thing anyway?"
"Same - same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy on journey."
I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is ... "
"Love, too," he said. — Elizabeth Gilbert

What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together.
He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time. — Erlend Loe

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them - I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them - the point is that I know a good person when I see one. — Enid Blyton

I couldn't change the wind but perhaps I could reduce the effect of the wind on the boat. — Gary Paulsen

In many cases bands have a lot to overcome, business being what it is. — Chris Stein