Terry Jones Quotes (30 Quotes)

I always considered them true philanthropists in that name recognition was of no importance to them.

It's been a real special bond with those two guys. They told me after we won it last year that this was going to be my going-away present. There were a few times we wondered about it, but we did persevere.

No doubt, 13 straight hikes by the (Federal Reserve) and the prospect of at least two more have also hurt.

John has a good sense of fairness, which is what we try to instill in everybody up here. I trust him to almost always arrive at the right decisions. Thats all you can really ask of anybody up here.

You see the warmongers, in any age it's the same thing - they make money out of it.

We do have an option agreement with the reverend, which he agreed to, he signed, and all we wanted to do was exercise our option under that agreement. And we have been prevented from doing that.

On the plus side, the personal financial outlook index bounced back sharply, and might be signaling further gains in coming months.

We'd actually met him once when he was at Cambridge. Then Terry Gilliam came along and started doing cartoons in the last series. We knew of John (Cleese) and Graham (Chapman) and what they were doing. They were doing a thing called 'The Last 1948 Show.' So it was really 'Don't Adjust Your Set' gets together with 'The Last 1948 Show'... John wanted to work with Mike Palin. At that time we decided not to do another series of 'Don't Adjust Your Set,' and we all came in the package Mike and me and Eric and Terry Gilliam. We said, 'Let's all do it together.' We all liked what each other did.

The Republicans have a clear edge in that regard.

Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.

The Earth is slowing down. The Earth is spinning slower than it was when the international second was defined using atomic clocks, so we're losing time on those clocks.

Given the media's focus on Katrina's destruction and on government's poor performance in the hurricane's aftermath, it's not surprising that confidence would fall. But, with aid now flowing and fatalities fewer than expected, that could reverse.

These included some disturbingly young people including a 13-year-old, and a scoutmaster who we then discovered had been abusing a child for four years,

Americans pay more for a tank of gas today than they do for two years worth of sugar. And taxpayers aren't footing the bill for these low, stable prices because sugar farmers don't receive subsidy checks.

We believe that Family Worship Center is trying to avoid its obligations under the options due to the change in the real estate market, ... ... Which is particularly unfortunate since it is our understanding that LSU wants to use some of the existing space to immediately house physicians who would render medical services to people impacted by the hurricane.

The power here can be a driving force in the community for both good and bad, and so you have to elect someone you can trust to not abuse those powers, and I feel really confident that John is in that category.

Americans are still worried about rising interest rates and high gasoline prices. That, along with the lingering impact from Hurricane Katrina and ongoing political fights in Washington, seems to be holding back consumer sentiment.

They seem to have this vision of people listening to a wire and stealing credit cards out of the ether, but that just doesn't happen.

The whole thing is hanging in limbo. It's hard to grieve when you don't know what happened.

People like to live here.

Every age sort of has its own history. History is really the stories that we retell to ourselves to make them relevant to every age. So we put our own values and our own spin on it.

I still think he's coming back. I still sit here and think I'm going to turn around and he's coming through the door.

It is a conundrum for us more than for the advertisers because we have to find a way over time to get paid for this information. For a Web site that derives some revenues from ads, it's our problem, and we have to figure out the right model.

You always have a harder time if you have an incumbent who's reasonably popular. Anybody challenging her was going to have both a name recognition and name ID problem.

It's a great time to book vacation travel for the winter, ... After the first of the year, airplanes are empty, resorts are empty, and they are very excited to get early bookings.

I don't think I did anything that damaged Vogue's circulation drastically, ... I did some bum covers. Actually there was one cover that was completely out of focus, but it looked intentional. Fine. I think Vogue was healthy enough at that time not to worry about its sales figures.

To make that work on a varying load is very hard.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

I'd always thought that if Python was going to go on at all, it'd be nice to get into storylines.