Jim Gerrish Quotes & Sayings

Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself. — Oprah Winfrey

One must observe the proper rites. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I put my time and energy into bringing answers, not hugs and hot chocolate. — Tana French

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alex McLeish has just had his hands in his head — Chris Kamara

With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives
military, medical, economic and financial, political
it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it. — Ray Kurzweil

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. — Ken Kesey

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin. — Timothy Keller

A god who becomes a man shows mercy.
A man who becomes a god does not. — Anonymous

I had a hole in my voice. It's an area in the voice where it's air. It's just - there's no - it's just very airy. And my classical teachers were just so frustrated with me because I would have these deep, low notes that were really strong, and the higher register was strong, but right in that middle area, it was really hard. It was like a passage. And many singers go through this and work it out. But I realized in jazz, I could just take advantage of that and take advantage of having a voice that was very different in different areas. — Cecile McLorin Salvant

Organization. If you want big words to talk to intellectuals with, that's a fine big word, son, just as many syllables as imagination, and it has a lot more realism in it. — Robert Shea

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. — Gale Sayers