Jim Ede Quotes & Sayings

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.' — Eddie Marsan

I did that for 40 years or more. I never had any writer's block. I got up in the morning, sat down at the typewriter - now, computer - lit up a cigarette. — Frederik Pohl

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also. — Igor Stravinsky

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it. — Thomas Adams

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight. — Madeleine Albright

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there. — William DeVries

Quit dwelling on the negative things people have said about you. You don't have to have everyone's approval. You have God's approval. — Joel Osteen

Sometimes I am so dry that people don't know I'm kidding and think I'm being serious. I enjoy this because their reactions are often funny. — Robert Crais

His eyes were dirty thoughts, and his lips curved into a breach of etiquette. — C.D. Reiss