Jeffrey Jones Quotes

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

There's nothing particularly unique about my experiences except that they're my experiences.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

The old always think the world is getting worse; it is for the young, equipped with historical facts, to point out that, compared with 1509, or even 1939, life in 2009 is sweet as honey.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

People of every era believe that theirs is golden.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Can a man cling to the positive without any negative in contrast to which it is seen to be positive? If he claims to do so he is a rouge or a madman.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

From my experience, moving through life, things tend to go in eight- to 10-year cycles. Friends, relationships and whatnot.

I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

A lot of times, when you're seeing something that you've done, you're thinking about the experience you had making it, not about the experience of the product.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

I meet a lot of people that grew up with my career and have retired, and I just want to talk to them. I like to get a feeling from them, a feeling of the old times.

Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, 'Man, you've been in a lot of bands.' Yes, I have. I've also been married several times, too, and every time I get into something, I think, 'This is the one.' I think that's just human nature.

I've always reflected on the game.

Whether it be climbing Mount Kilimanjaro or dealing with your children, life is an adventure, and it's how you perceive it.