Sam J. Jones Quotes

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

Sam J. Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1954

Topics

ReachYouCareerPhoneMoreTurn

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Maya Angelou

KnowledgeYouthLossMoreUpGain

Money is a bad friend. Don't ever do anything for money.

Maurizio Cattelan

FriendMoneyBadAnythingEver

What's amazing is how rock n' roll lasted. It started losing its commercial power in the late 1990s. But think of swing, which we think of as this big music before rock n' roll. It only lasted five years in total. So, rock going 50 years is amazing, because young people want new things.

Robert Hilburn

MusicPowerNew ThingsLosingPeople

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

Simon Newcomb

SunOutEclipseObserveVisible

I've never seen Washington as divided as we are right now.

Judy Woodruff

NowWashingtonNeverRightDivided

I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

NameGoingPaperworkMarriedHall

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Colin Angle

RobotsHollywoodMechanicalImagine

Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Chuck Palahniuk

LiveHateChaosThinkBoringNeed

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

Brady Corbet

AgeYoungWatchingYoung AgeFilms

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

Arthur Eddington

WorldQuestAbsoluteLeads

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

Sheldon Whitehouse

WorkGodHereHeOurs

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?

Seth Shostak

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