Just Quotes

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

Talking about the democratization of fashion is just one of the many trite things people say these days.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

We can't all work in the inner city. And, I don't even think that it is incumbent upon an African-American intellectual to be concerned in their work with problems of race and class. It's just one of the things, that we here at the DuBois Institute, are concerned about.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Better to just be real. Show up and do your job and be a nice person.

I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.

The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Don't accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.

This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.