128 Quotes by Tommy Lee Jones

A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.

I don't get it. If you're saying, Tommy Lee, you don't fit the image of the East Coast, social elitist wealthy people who comprise Harvard, the only thing I can say is you have no idea what comprises Harvard.

The world's not a very comfortable place if you have a nightmare to face.

Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.

I know a lot of cowboys and I've done a little work on ranches with cattle, and those people become your friends, and keep their word.