Jimilee Quotes & Sayings

I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me. — Michael Wincott

I'd ban coincidences, if I were a dictator of fiction. Well, perhaps not entirely. Coincidences would be permitted in the picaresque; that's where they belong. Go on, take them: let — Julian Barnes

It is a meager freedom that leaves no scars — Brian Staveley

After two takes you're imitating yourself. — Thelonious Monk

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters. — C.S. Lewis

We create a lot of unnecessary problems in our lives by acting emotionally ... without contemplating the ripple effects of our actions. — Timothy Pina

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit. — Richard Lamm

Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction. — Pasquier Quesnel

Since changing interfaces breaks clients you should consider them as immutable once you've published them. — Erich Gamma

On a social level, people have to look after each other, but on an ethical level, each of us has to look after ourselves. If you are a billionaire it is because you have done evil in the world. You have exploited and caused untold misery. You have bent laws and governments to your will. I don't want to shoot him.
I want to strangle him with piano wire. I don't want to escape. I want to be caught and explain my idea to the world. I want to be executed. I now have nothing to lose. We will all be forgotten. But if ten of us manage to kill billionaires those ten will be remembered forever. Our poverty will become history. Wealth is impersonal but we will make it personal again. — Jacob Wren

Most people leaving church still see the need for some kind of community. We shouldn't think most of them as interested in lone-ranger Christianity. Often, these ex-churchgoers meet together for prayer, accountability, and encouragement. — Kevin DeYoung

I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable. — Douglas Rushkoff

So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones. — Julia Cameron

I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have. — Owain Yeoman

Life is too short to dust every week. — Mary Engelbreit