But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not...
JAMES JONES You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtu...
JAMES JONES And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES I cant take it like this much longer, Milt," Karen said muffledly into the big CKC shirt with its ma...
JAMES JONES When compared to the fact that he might very well be dead by this time tomorrow, whether he was cour...
JAMES JONES If they can remember their address, they can do it properly.
JAMES JONES That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be...
JAMES JONES I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of t...
JAMES JONES Judge Michael was a wonderful person and will be sorely missed by his colleagues on the bench and th...
JAMES JONES When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dus...
JAMES JONES In my old age I have come to believe that the whole of written history is miscreated and flawed by t...
JAMES JONES And the strange thing was he had never loved her more than in that moment, because at that moment sh...
JAMES JONES Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had fe...
JAMES JONES There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fati...
JAMES JONES I like it too," Angelo said. "I love this country. Much you and anybody, and you know it."

JAMES JONES They shouldnt teach their immigrants' kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a l...
JAMES JONES Up until then it had only been himself. Up to then it had been a private wrestle between him and him...
JAMES JONES The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundre...
JAMES JONES He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to...
JAMES JONES Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the...
JAMES JONES All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking go...
JAMES JONES The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions.
JAMES JONES Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty ye...
JAMES JONES But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not wan...
JAMES JONES The little red eyes glared at Prew challenging, almost hoping for some disagreement that would force...
JAMES JONES Maylon Stark was medium-built and husky. That was the only word to fit him, husky. He had a husky fa...
JAMES JONES It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss ...
JAMES JONES And it seemed to him then that every human was always looking for himself, in bars, in railway train...
JAMES JONES All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. ...
JAMES JONES Love either starves to death and becomes a shadow, or else it dies young and remains a dream.
JAMES JONES One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and p...
JAMES JONES You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve....
JAMES JONES Everybody talks about freedom, citizens," the big man said gently, seeming to draw upon that very su...
JAMES JONES Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitt...
JAMES JONES The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be...
JAMES JONES He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yours...
JAMES JONES He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.
JAMES JONES He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate t...
JAMES JONES I'm an American, and always will be. I happen to love that big, awkward, sprawling country very ...
JAMES JONES This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and ...
JAMES JONES Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue...
JAMES JONES If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
T...
JAMES JONES And when that happens, Mexico will have really leapt forward to first-world respectability.
JAMES JONES What President Zedillo has tried to do is to make the campaign and the election day counting both fa...
JAMES JONES I'm pretty sure I'll get a chance to showcase some of those talents that my family members don't kno...
JAMES JONES They just tell you work every day as if you're playing, because your opportunity will come. Every pl...
JAMES JONES I like the way they play. They get up and down the floor, which is something I like. But more import...
JAMES JONES We had these guys, but special teams hurt us a lot. We couldn't stop them as well sometimes on defen...
JAMES JONES Over the past half-dozen years they've spent almost $2 billion in various kinds of safeguards, to ma...
JAMES JONES We're not asking anybody here to stop what you're doing. We're asking you to do what you're doing in...
JAMES JONES I'm a setup guy and tonight I made a couple of shots and got us going. We work well together and hav...
JAMES JONES Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd ...
JAMES EARL JONES More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
JAMES EARL JONES The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens shou...
JAMES EARL JONES Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.
JAMES EARL JONES One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl J...
JAMES EARL JONES One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
JAMES EARL JONES In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better ...
JAMES EARL JONES Tears are words the heart can't express
JAMES EARL JONES When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not ...
JAMES EARL JONES When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, ...
JAMES EARL JONES Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me ...
JAMES EARL JONES The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gott...
JAMES EARL JONES So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
JAMES EARL JONES I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutter...
JAMES EARL JONES I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights moveme...
JAMES EARL JONES People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, ...
JAMES EARL JONES The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal w...
JAMES EARL JONES If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, lets all get wasted and have the time of our...
JAMES EARL JONES And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this socie...
JAMES EARL JONES Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white communit...
JAMES EARL JONES So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school ...
JAMES EARL JONES When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written wor...
JAMES EARL JONES He observed neighborhoods, people in neighborhoods, and he learned how they talk. I think that is th...
JAMES EARL JONES you probably know more 'Star Wars' quotes than I do.
JAMES EARL JONES I don't have one or two. Do you have one?
JAMES EARL JONES What if we do go to some other planet, discover it has life, and then not be able to get the baby sn...
JAMES EARL JONES Theaters like (the Landmark), I hope they will forever be salvaged. Long live this theater!
JAMES EARL JONES A dog and a beer.
JAMES EARL JONES Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.
JAMES EARL JONES Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilo...
JAMES EARL JONES And now, your highness, we will discuss the location of your hidden rebel base...
JAMES EARL JONES There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
JAMES EARL JONES My main gripe with suicide bombers, besides the fact that they usually aren't on my side of an issue...
JAMES EARL JONES Today will be a day long remembered. It has seen the death of Kenobi, and will soon see the end of t...
JAMES EARL JONES I'm shocked and deeply saddened, and I send my deepest sympathies to the Cosby family.
JAMES EARL JONES I didn't get the job because I look like a lion. I got the job because I can read the words on the p...
JAMES EARL JONES The simple beauty of August's words struck me profoundly. The lines just seemed to have a life of th...
JAMES EARL JONES I've learned that racism will not be taken as a given. I don't think we should ever accept it.
JAMES EARL JONES We are united not only in our grief, but also in our resolve to build a better world. Our spirit is ...
JAMES EARL JONES It seems like every week we hear of new excitement or response from celebrities. Last week, James Ea...
JAMES EARL JONES Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers....
JAMES EARL JONES I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?
JAMES EARL JONES And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arth...
JAMES EARL JONES One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
JAMES EARL JONES One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sittin...
JAMES EARL JONES So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I s...
JAMES EARL JONES I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a far...
JAMES EARL JONES [Quotable:] The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by li...
JAMES EARL JONES Ray. People will come, Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up...
JAMES EARL JONES I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up ...
FELICITY JONES Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet...
QUINCY JONES It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows...
SHIRLEY JONES I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
TAYARI JONES Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
TAYARI JONES Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
TAYARI JONES My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the c...
TAYARI JONES I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
TAYARI JONES When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an e...
TAYARI JONES I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
TAYARI JONES I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
TAYARI JONES I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, whe...
TAYARI JONES When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catc...
TAYARI JONES I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field o...
TAYARI JONES I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 ho...
TAMALA JONES I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
TAMALA JONES I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
TAMALA JONES The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' f...
TAMALA JONES I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around b...
TAMALA JONES People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my J...
TAMALA JONES I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out ...
TAMALA JONES I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
TAMALA JONES For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should w...
TAMALA JONES I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
TAMALA JONES I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the res...
DAVY JONES You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
JACK JONES Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.
JACK JONES When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he...
DHANI JONES I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress...
GRACE JONES I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a persona...
ORLANDO JONES Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
ORLANDO JONES I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making...
ORLANDO JONES That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero,...
ORLANDO JONES Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's t...
ORLANDO JONES You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just c...
QUINCY JONES I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ...
QUINCY JONES It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of...
QUINCY JONES Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white p...
QUINCY JONES We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ...
QUINCY JONES Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
QUINCY JONES I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
QUINCY JONES I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of al...
QUINCY JONES I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
DAVY JONES You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to...
AL JONES We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the mu...
ADAM JONES In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little ...
ADAM JONES I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
ADAM JONES Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
ADAM JONES I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
ADAM JONES I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes...
ADAM JONES I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
ADAM JONES I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
ADAM JONES