Best 68 quotes of James Rozoff on MyQuotes

A library is a sacred place where the voices of the ancients can still be heard if we but give them the required silence.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

Before Ayn Rand coined the term “objectivists”, we just called them “selfish assholes”.

But failure and success are labels placed upon people’s lives the way a child values winning a game whether or not they have to bend the rules in order to do it. But life is not a game and the rules cannot be bent without repercussions that prove damaging later on. We must play the game for all we are worth, and we must play it fairly. We play and lose and play again, over and over. We lose and we pick up and start again a little wiser. We learn the game a little better in the playing, learn lessons for the next game. And should we lose today it is only a step towards the winning of the larger game. We move our piece on the board one step at a time, but it is all part of some larger process.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

Don't punch at the darkness, be a light.

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

Fools are in the majority, and they never lack confidence because a fool believes that being in the majority is proof that one is right.

Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. I’d be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

Heaven is fleeting, but Hell is an eternity. Hell becomes the more so the longer one lives it.

Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

He who dies with the most toys...dies a child.

I don’t want us to be the species that ruins it for the rest. What we do not consume we poison. Sometimes we do both. Perhaps that is how we shall end, by consuming the poisons we have created.

If God rewards the faithful with earthly rewards, then what leverage does the devil have?

I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about.

If only money was as capable of caring about people as much as people care about money.

If you want a language to survive, capture great thoughts within it. William Shakespeare has ensured Elizabethan English will never perish from this world.

Ignorance is a horrible thing. But arrogance, the belief that knowing a little more than the ignorant makes you wise, is more horrible still.

Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime.

It is wisdom to know who you are, but not to the point of excluding who you might become.

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left.

Most animals sleep in a hole in the ground or hanging from a tree. Man alone has made for himself an elaborate resting place. And yet he is the only one to have developed the alarm clock to rouse himself from it, the only species to spend sixteen or more hours of each day away from it.

My problem as a writer is that—whenever I meet someone for the first time—I immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. And confirming this character to be uninteresting after a few minutes of conversation, I decide that they are unnecessary to my story and begin devising ways to kill them off.

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

No man is a master of his own lies. While at first they may appear as servants eager to help us achieve our goals, as soon as enough of them accumulate, they realize their strength in numbers and thus make servants of us.

No, not conquer, that is too foolish a world. Any man who scales a mountain is still but a man, a transient speck compared to the immensity and permanence of a mountain .

Nothing is taken at face value anymore, everything must be dissected. Perhaps it is the rise of advertisement over church and state. Things once spoken were spoken with strength and authority. Now they are spoken with stealth and with guile. They are spoken not to the rational mind but to the sub-conscious, the mind within the mind.

Once you realize that life and love are not things you can possess but forces that emanate through us and through all creation, then you can begin to appreciate the miracle you are a part of. You can release the burden and appreciate what you have had, have now and will have. Only trying to hold on to what you do not have causes pain. Letting go permits you to experience the incredible joy that comes to you at each and every moment.

Our country is the only one that truly permits you to speak bad of your country, so you really shouldn’t say anything bad about it.

People perceive the divine according to their own biases. That doesn’t make the experience any less real.

Perhaps religion provides the justification for wars, but science provides the weapons.

Perhaps the media may not always be telling what to think, but it is always telling you what to think about.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

Security is an illusion, but it is a pleasant one.

Sheep only need a single flock, but people need two: one to belong to and make them feel comfortable, and another to blame all of society’s problems on.

Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

Sooner or later you realize there are no answers, no answers except the ones you believe. Sooner or later faith is the only answer left.

Stories nowadays are put in to squares, just like everything else. Stories are ever changing. They are like rivers that flow, but mankind is busy trying to dam them up and as a result, they become stagnant. They divert the water into square swimming pools, and then add chemicals to it in order to keep it sterile.

Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.

The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.

The fool attempts to predict the next big wave while ignoring the tide.

The intellect seeks to throw its own interpretation of the real over reality, and in so doing carves the world up into artificial little cubes.

There is a third choice besides being busy and killing time, something profound.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.