Jack Nicholson Quotes

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.

John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.

If to be old is not to be wise, then it is simply to be obsolete.

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other.

And for winter fly-fishing it is as useful as an almanac out of date.

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

OLD, adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with general inefficiency, as an "old man". Discredited by lapse of time and offensive to the popular taste, as an "old" book.

The Gunman is useless. I know it. He knows it. The whole bank knows it.

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

It carried quite a wallop. I have all the classic symptoms. Reflection. Where am I now? Where have I come from? What's important? Dealing with the moment of a different kind of feeling for mortality. Shifting of the body. Contextualizing or reevaluating behaviors and values. All those kinds of things.

An economist is someone who knows all the answers to last years' questions.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Reading something for the first time and getting this feeling like the material provokes you on some level, and doing the movie is really just sort of defining and figuring out why exactly you felt certain things when you read it.

The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.

You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.

That's great. Except for the fact that it's completely unimportant.

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

Feeling well that breathed words Would all be lost, unheard, and vain as swords Against the enchased crocodile, or leaps Of grasshoppers against the sun.

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.