There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level ...
JIM HIGHTOWER What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitioni...
JIM HIGHTOWER The Texas 'redistricting' has outed Tom Delay.
JIM HIGHTOWER Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
JIM HIGHTOWER The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
JIM HIGHTOWER But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code h...
JIM HIGHTOWER Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower work...
JIM HIGHTOWER The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have dema...
JIM HIGHTOWER The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a...
JIM HIGHTOWER It's hard for the donkeys to win the race if they're going to carry the elephants on their b...
JIM HIGHTOWER When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
JIM HIGHTOWER So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, espec...
JIM HIGHTOWER Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agricult...
JIM HIGHTOWER The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.
JIM HIGHTOWER Even a little dog can piss on a big building.
JIM HIGHTOWER Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something...
JIM HIGHTOWER I think our kids are very aware of the situation. We realize how blessed we are to still be together...
JIM HIGHTOWER My heart goes out to all those people,
JIM HIGHTOWER There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.
JIM HIGHTOWER Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
JIM HIGHTOWER [The governor] operates in a very closed loop, ... I think he actually means well, but he's sealed o...
JIM HIGHTOWER This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.
JIM HIGHTOWER There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.
JIM HIGHTOWER What's new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It's not politicians wo...
JIM HIGHTOWER If I go anywhere, and I don't have my coffee, I don't drink coffee. When I travel, I carry i...
GRACE HIGHTOWER Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to ...
CULLEN HIGHTOWER We didn't make routine plays early that could have gotten us out of some innings. But you can't take...
BARRY HIGHTOWER They'll definitely get up for that game. We sometimes tend to look at the immediate instead of what ...
BARRY HIGHTOWER We've got three region losses by five runs. We needed that one.
BARRY HIGHTOWER We played well as a team. We executed our sacrifices, got two-out hits. That's what its all about - ...
BARRY HIGHTOWER Matt had gotten them out all game. We didn't make the plays behind him in the last inning. He's a se...
BARRY HIGHTOWER Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose...
CULLEN HIGHTOWER There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your successes.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER The difference in the game happened in that inning when their first baseman made that great play and...
BARRY HIGHTOWER We've played really well and done what we had to do. I told the guys that we needed to win out to ge...
BARRY HIGHTOWER We got some good hits tonight.
BARRY HIGHTOWER Our defense cost us in the end. We just did not execute like we were supposed to.
BARRY HIGHTOWER We did a good job of running the bases. We took advantage of the opportunities they gave us and the ...
BARRY HIGHTOWER That's a tough one to lose. The kids played hard and had a chance to win it, we just couldn't close ...
BARRY HIGHTOWER Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there
CULLEN HIGHTOWER We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
CULLEN HIGHTOWER One must not give up on the first sign of a struggle, for giving up so easily is not the best thing ...
JARELLE HIGHTOWER I like the way the game is going right now. I wish we could have got it in today.
BRIAN HIGHTOWER Our guys could've easily died and gone home when they were up 11-5. But they showed a lot of charact...
BRIAN HIGHTOWER Every game he's thrown, he's thrown well. (But) offensively, we've been struggling.
BRIAN HIGHTOWER There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebod...
CULLEN HIGHTOWER The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct ...
CULLEN HIGHTOWER We're big believers in trees.
DAVID HIGHTOWER If her mom or dad can't be at the game, they have to furnish a nurse or she isn't allowed to play. W...
DAVID HIGHTOWER Her parents are really good about watching her, especially her dad, because he's also diabetic. They...
DAVID HIGHTOWER A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it...
CULLEN HIGHTOWER I'll give you my routine, my morning ritual: I get up, I do a bit of stretching, and then after ...
GRACE HIGHTOWER It's a hectic time of the year. It adds a little bit of edge to everybody's nerves.
HALEY HIGHTOWER Erika sets a level of play that everyone aspires to play at. She has been a blessing.
HALEY HIGHTOWER You never believe everything you hear.
HALEY HIGHTOWER Really what came out of this was almost an affirmation of issues that the department and really neig...
LYNN HIGHTOWER It is critical that, for officer safety and community safety, officers keep sharp on their shooting ...
LYNN HIGHTOWER And that range was ideal for qualifying shoots, range shoots and for special operations training.
LYNN HIGHTOWER The purpose was twofold — first for citizen safety, and also to give them suspect information.
LYNN HIGHTOWER What the neighbors are telling us is they're dealing with subjects who are intoxicated or hanging ar...
LYNN HIGHTOWER Because of privacy issues, we only get involved when there is some suspicion on the part of the bloo...
LYNN HIGHTOWER This is a really horrible, tragic case, and the potential consequences are quite severe. Investigato...
LYNN HIGHTOWER Horses are part of our Western heritage that we love to celebrate. From that point of view it really...
LYNN HIGHTOWER I wanted us to come together and say thank you to him. We have always considered him our spiritual f...
MALAIKA HIGHTOWER He is really down to earth, everyone knows him as Brother Hutchinson. In fact, he still drives the c...
MALAIKA HIGHTOWER He preaches like he is 19. He gives thunderous, moving, inspirational sermons. It is really powerful...
MALAIKA HIGHTOWER When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISON Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
JIM ROHN Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
JIM MORRISON I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of be...
JIM DAVIS I stop short of being a workaholic.
JIM DAVIS When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.
JIM DAVIS I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
JIM DAVIS I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
JIM DAVIS I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make rea...
JIM DAVIS Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
JIM DAVIS I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
JIM DAVIS My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
JIM DAVIS I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condi...
JIM DAVIS Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting...
JIM DAVIS You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
JIM DAVIS The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
JIM DAVIS Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
JIM DAVIS There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessari...
JIM DAVIS Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute hum...
JIM DAVIS You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veteran...
JIM DAVIS Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
JIM DAVIS Cats rule the world.
JIM DAVIS As we celebrate President Reagan's remarkable career and historic legacy, we also celebrate a ma...
JIM RAMSTAD I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, th...
JIM JARMUSCH Where's your will to be weird?
JIM MORRISON Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
JIM ROHN Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
JIM MORRISON Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and op...
JIM MORRISON My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where t...
JIM CARREY Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se...
JIM CARREY I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserv...
JIM CARREY There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like...
JIM CARREY I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
JIM CARREY Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good rel...
JIM CARREY Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
JIM CARREY People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without despera...
JIM CARREY Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain...
JIM CARREY I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingred...
JIM CARREY I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day w...
JIM CARREY If you've got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREY My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create ...
JIM CARREY It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's lef...
JIM CARREY Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articl...
JIM HENSON Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in t...
JIM HENSON Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I ...
JIM HENSON There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most ...
JIM HENSON I think my own strengths are in television production.
JIM HENSON It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gor...
JIM HENSON NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale o...
JIM HENSON No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working t...
JIM HENSON Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantag...
JIM HENSON I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.
JIM HENSON Somebody like a Piggy or a Kermit, there needs to be several versions and so there will be several o...
JIM HENSON When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like t...
JIM HENSON At the time of Polaroid - and I did a couple of other commercials just before I stopped doing that s...
JIM HENSON It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that peop...
JIM HENSON I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends; we're all ...
JIM HENSON At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was in...
JIM HENSON When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them...
JIM HENSON I do remember doing shows strictly in black and white, too, so you're right.
JIM HENSON But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - to...
JIM HENSON My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
JIM HENSON When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My ho...
JIM HENSON The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
JIM HENSON Either you run the day or the day runs you.
JIM ROHN The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
JIM ROHN Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
JIM ROHN There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Supe...
JIM LEE I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien...
JIM GARRISON I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul...
JIM GARRISON The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ...
JIM GARRISON This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s...
JIM GARRISON I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
JIM GARRISON It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr...
JIM GARRISON My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi...
JIM GARRISON It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
JIM GARRISON Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait...
JIM GARRISON It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig...
JIM GARRISON It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass...
JIM GARRISON I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
JIM GARRISON I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa...
JIM GARRISON I ran for Congress in 1996 to help Ted Kennedy pass a comprehensive health insurance reform bill.
JIM MCGOVERN I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration ...
JIM MCGOVERN In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdr...
JIM MCGOVERN A large majority of Americans believe that corporations exert too much influence on our daily lives ...
JIM MCGOVERN Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate ch...
JIM MCGOVERN I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
JIM CARREY A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize l...
JIM GAFFIGAN I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, &#...
JIM CARREY Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their...
JIM MORRISON There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
JIM ROHN I suspect that most people in the world will travel through or at least wish to travel through Miami...
JIM DRAIN Embryonic stem cell research will prolong life, improve life and give hope for life to millions of p...
JIM RAMSTAD I go out and take oysters, clams and mussels every 2 weeks or so during late fall, winter and early ...
JIM HIMES If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, ...
JIM ROHN Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all t...
JIM CRACE I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it...
JIM MORRISON Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the princip...
JIM GERLACH You can't be unhappy in the middle of a big, beautiful river.
JIM HARRISON The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in o...
JIM WEBB Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America...
JIM BROWN Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
JIM COOPER Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At le...
JIM ROHN I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d...
JIM BROWN I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ...
JIM BROWN Boundary setting is really a huge part of time management.
JIM LOEHR Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror ar...
JIM FERGUS I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. A...
JIM THOMPSON British actors come at acting from a slightly different angle. Because a lot of the films are cast o...
JIM STURGESS With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on ...
JIM DOYLE I like reflecting the culture I understand best, spotting the idiosyncrasies of British people and r...
JIM BROADBENT During school, I'd advertise cars in the University of British Columbia newspaper.
JIM PATTISON