Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Henson - Page 2

Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.

Television is basically teaching whether you want it to or not.

I've never felt any sense of competition with anybody, and we're all friends. We're all good friends.

Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.

Never eat anything at one sitting that you can't lift.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

Who said that every wish would be heard and answered when wished on an evening star? Somebody thought of it and someone believed it, and look what its done so far.

If you take a character and you call him a frog, or like Rowlf, our dog, call him a dog, you immediately give the audience a handle.

Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.

I don't want'a die... I have other plans!

I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me.

If you can't beat them. Join them

No time is wasted time

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, it's just a matter of us figuring out how to receive the ideas waiting to be heard.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

Watch out for the icy patch

There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.

(Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick. He thought that guy had a great job, walking along with a stick, enjoying the road, and doing only good in the world, with hundreds of small actions.

I don't know exactly where ideas come from, but when I'm working well ideas just appear. I've heard other people say similar things - so it's one of the ways I know there's help and guidance out there. It's just a matter of our figuring out how to receive the ideas or information that are waiting to be heard.

I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems

I don't resent working long hours. I shouldn't- I'm the one who set up my life this way. I love to work. It's the thing that I get the most satisfaction out of-nd probably what I do best. Not that I don't enjoy days off. I love vacations and loafing around. But I think much of the world has the wrong idea of working. It's one of the good things in life. The feeling of accomplishment is more real and satisfying than finishing a good meal- or looking at one's accumulated wealth.

I believe that life is basically a process of growth-that we go through many lives, choosing those situations and problems that we will learn through.

Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back the child you have stolen, for my will is as strong as yours and my kingdom as great. You have no power over me!

Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.