Jim Carroll Quotes

#1. If I said Jim Carroll would you be insulted?"
-Jessica Citizen-

David Rat

#2. I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.

Jim Carroll

#3. I love this mansion, though it is too many windows
... to open halfway each morning
... to close halfway each night.

Jim Carroll

#4. they're fucking up minds they do not own.

Jim Carroll

#5. Violence is so terribly fast ... the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous ... the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

Jim Carroll

#6. Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."

Jamaica Kincaid

#7. The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.
["Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming," The Westminster Review, 1885.]

George Eliot

#8. Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

Jim Carroll

#9. That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you can always wake up before he makes you cum.

Jim Carroll

#10. Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun
into graceful shafts of light ...
I just want to be pure.

Jim Carroll

#11. I sleep on a tar roof
scream my songs
into lazy floods of stars ...
a white powder paddles through blood and heart
and the returns
pure and easy ...
This city is on my side.

Jim Carroll

#12. Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.

Jim Carroll

#13. This traditional woman grew up in a world where respect for the animals hunted was of paramount importance. A concept that, in many cases, differentiates the native from the non-native hunter.

Ray Mears

#14. When we put our cares in his hands he puts his peace in our hearts.

Various

#15. You see, you just don't know
I'm here to give you my heart
And you want some fashion show

Jim Carroll

#16. We need a great president.

Donald Trump

#17. If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

Estelle

#18. I still am a little late, though. I'm trying. There's a lot of shit to do to pull this old ass together.

Cyndi Lauper

#19. Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.

Jim Carroll

#20. There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone's inside, the car will move.

Jim Carroll

#21. You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies ... so we can dance.

Jim Carroll

#22. On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one's body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

Jim Carroll

#23. I wind up stretched across the couch
still nodding with Sherlock Holmes
examining our crushed veins

Jim Carroll

#24. My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.

Jim Carroll

#25. All right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

Jim Carroll

#26. It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

Jim Carroll

#27. Poverty of young men alone behind the
stairways, who practice
alchemy inside bottle caps, who know
the altruism of a last syringe.

Jim Carroll

#28. I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy,

Jim Carroll

#29. Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

Mark Dayton

#30. Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

Jim Carroll

#31. We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

Nelson Mandela

#32. How long has it been since you looked into the eyes of your mother and, holding nothing back, spoke those welcome words, 'Mother, I truly love you'? How about Father, who daily toils to provide for you? Fathers appreciate hearing those same precious words from the lips of a child, 'I love you.'

Thomas S. Monson