Jimmy Quotes

I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?'

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

Jimmy Stewart was a very sincere, honest and straightforward man.

NBC's priorities are Jimmy Fallon and Jay Leno, and then there's me.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.

Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to - to balance the family ticket.

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

A nice pair of Jimmy Choos never hurt anyone.

Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks.

The best thing going for us is Al Gore. I cannot conceive how the American people could elect him. On the other hand, I couldn't conceive how they could elect a Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton - especially Clinton in '96.

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

Prince decided to move from Minneapolis to Toronto. Jimmy Jam told me that they were living there now.

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.