Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonny Lee Miller

I dont think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones arent. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

Jordana Spiro

I think there's really no rhyme or reason as to what keeps a show on air. Surely it's a numbers game, but some of the best shows get canceled, and some shows where you don't totally understand why they're on the air stay on for 15 or 20 years.

Jordana Brewster

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

Jordana Brewster

I think escapism is really important.

Jonny Greenwood

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

Jonny Greenwood

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

Jonny Greenwood

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

Jonny Lang

I think in the future I will end up doing a gospel album.

Jonny Lang

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.

Jonny Lang

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

Jonny Lang

With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.

Jonny Lang

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

Joni Eareckson Tada

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

Joni Eareckson Tada

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

Joni Eareckson Tada

We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

Joni Mitchell

I don't know how to sell out. If I tried to sell out I don't think I could.

Joni Mitchell

I didn't think I had much of a following in the south. I thought I was anonymous down there so I kept to the south. I found in certain pockets that I was quite recognizable, and I just hit a wig store.

Joni Mitchell

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

Joni Mitchell

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

Joni Mitchell

Everybody's saying hell's the hippest way to go. Well, I don't think so, but I'm gonna take a look around it though.

Joni Mitchell

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me. When I think back on the time, I look at it with a wink. I focus on the good moments I had, not that I was on a lot of magazine covers.

Jonathan Stroud

listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.

Jonathan Stroud

Haven't you done enough for a lifetime? Think about it—two power—crazed magicians killed, a hundred power—crazed magicians saved…

Jonathan Stroud

I rather think he knew anyway.

Jonathan Stroud

A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I’d have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.

Jonathan Tucker

You think about acting kind of as an iceberg where you've got that 5% that you see... but in order to have that 5%... you have to have another 95%.

Jonathan Tucker

My whole day revolves around food. If you think you've won the day, only because you haven't eaten over 1,000 calories, you know that things are off-kilter. That's not a healthy way to be thinking.

Jonathan Tropper

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

Jonathan Tropper

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

Jonathan Tropper

Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?