Jim Quotes
341 Jim quotes by 259 unique authors
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We went on stage with the Jefferson Airplane, Jim started singing with Grace Slick and hugging her. Then he danced off the stage, went back…
— Ray Manzarek
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I was onstage with Menudo since I was 12 years old. To us, the most successful one was the guy with the most fans. If…
— Ricky Martin
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I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
— Jenny McCarthy
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I have talked to Debbie Hammond quite a bit, Jim Hammond's wife, his widow. I've seen their kids. And last time we played Dallas, a…
— Reba McEntire
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If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin…
— Jon Meacham
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As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have…
— Jon Meacham
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Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to…
— Russell Means
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Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought…
— Alan Moore
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That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt…
— Al Pacino
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In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified…
— Rand Paul
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
— Rand Paul
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We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
— Al Sharpton
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The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don't stand around and say, 'Gee, what are they talking about?' Rock is simple,…
— Grace Slick
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In 1974, when I started working with the material that became 'Horses,' a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and…
— Patti Smith
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What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to…
— Patti Smith
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The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the…
— Thomas Sowell
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons…
— Patrick Swayze
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I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments.
— Lee Trevino
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The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix,…
— Steven Van Zandt
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Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard…
— James Wolcott
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There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.
— Mark Twain
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Pirate Captain Jim "Walk the plank," says Pirate Jim "But Captain Jim, I cannot swim." "Then you must steer us through the gale." "But Captain…
— Shel Silverstein
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When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot
— Elisabeth Elliot
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The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by…
— Ray Bradbury
Who Wrote These Jim Quotes
259 authors contributed a total of 341 Jim Quotes, led by these top contributors: