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Jim Carroll Quotes

I was always the young guy. And when you're successful when you're young, it leads to an arrested adolescence or something, y'know.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1949 - September 11, 2009

Topics

You Young Adolescence Always Guy

I get to pretend I'm flying into space, and hang out with my friends. That's what I do for a living.

Space Flying Friends Living Out Get

I love most melodic music - classical, reggae, big band, jazz, blues, country, pop, swing, folk.

Love Music Country Blues Jazz Swing

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

World Brilliant More Need Turn Out

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

Stephen Jay Gould

Me Scared Becoming Skeleton General

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Patience Learn You First Must Lot

Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done.

Sports Job Me Truck Speed Done

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

Good Computers Year Student Senior

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

Leadership Time Team Resources Means

Using a typewriter, at times, feels more like playing piano than jotting down notes, a percussive exercise in expressing thought that is both tortuous and rewarding.

Thought Exercise Down More Piano

The one genre I'm not really into: self-help books.

Michiko Kakutani

Books Genre Self-Help Really

When I started editing on my home computer, I said to myself, 'Well, I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Home Myself Said Editing Class Well

When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.

Book Guitar Learn Down Play Found

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