Jason Alexander:
CLASS OF 1977
Bayou AcademyClass of 1977
Cleveland, MS
Mississippi College - LawClass of 2008
Clinton, MS
Mississippi CollegeClass of 1981
Clinton, MS
Jason's Story
Jason is from Coral Gables, Florida. Jason is married. Jason's schools include Bayou Academy. Jason later attended Mississippi College (Law). Jason works(ed) at 11th District Circuit Court, Mississippi Supreme Court.
Music Jason likes includes Oldies Station, YourClassical, Zeta 92. Books Jason likes include Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, Island of the White Rose, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. Movies Jason likes include Young Frankenstein, The 3rd Party Candidate, Gran Torino Society. TV shows Jason likes include Saturday Night Live, The Last Ship, NBC Sports.
One of Jason's favorite quotes is:""I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa." Grant Wood
"Some might conclude that this loaf could have used a while longer in the oven. But that would be wrong; it is already overcooked. The most expert care in preparation cannot redeem a bad recipe." Justice Antonin Scalia, dissent to Doma decision
“The beauty, the genius is not to write a 5 cent idea in a ten dollar sentence. It's to put a ten dollar idea in a 5 cent sentence. That's beauty. That's editing. That's writing." Justice Clarence Thomas
"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell
"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." Sank Powe
"When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk." Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
"the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing." Oscar Wilde
“I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” Khalil Gibran
"Ad hoc, ad loc and quid pro quo. So little time, so much to know." Jeremy Hillary Boob, Ph. D., aka Nowhere Man, Yellow Submarine
"My Dad used to tell us: ‘En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos.’" Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
"Self esteem comes from achievement, not from lax standards and false praise." Condi Rice
"But, you know, some men are heterosexual, and some men are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all. They become lawyers.” Woody Allen, Love and Death"
"Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it." Julia Child
"The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools." Ecclesiastes 9:17
"If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame." Proverbs 18:13, ESV
"That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in, and the best of me is diligence." William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene IV, The Earl of Kent.
“I used to say all the time that the most underestimated place in the world is Mississippi and the most underestimated people are Mississippians. The worst part is that it was we who underestimated ourselves. We stopped doing that. We turned the corner. . . . Now we’ve got to keep Mississippi moving forward together.” Haley Barbour, April 21, 2011
"In the end, it comes down to good people doing the right thing in tough situations." Wyatt Emmerich on the actions...Expand for more
of Judge Henry Lackey
"Writing....is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having your tooth pulled." Dean Koontz
"I'm stupid with facts about other people's lives." Kathryn Stockett, The Help.
"Observe with friend and foes the ordinary rules of courtesy." MLK's pledge of nonviolence - rule 6
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth." Ronald Reagan
"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you and just before you realize what’s wrong with it.” Anonymous
"Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." Minna Antrim
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
“[T]he only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.” Anne Lamott
“I am not young enough to know everything.” Oscar Wilde
"Respect is a two-way street. If you want it, you have to give it" Lenny Wilkens
“They just ain’t no sense a killin’ somebody over a bunch of silly words.” Festus on Gunsmoke
"By experience, we find out a short way by a long wandering" Roger Ascham, as quoted by Thomas Hardy in Tess of the D'Urbervilles
“It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!” Abraham Lincoln
"There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don'tcha know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it." Marge Gunderson in Fargo.
“My given name is Benjamin Buford Blue, but people call me Bubba. Just like one of them ol' redneck boys. Can you believe that? ----
My name's Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump.” Bubba and Forrest in Forrest Gump
"I've got a love-child that sends me hate mail." George Carlin from his "I'm a Modern Man" routine.
"Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." Dean Wormer in Animal House
“Supposin' I was to go to work and learn how to . . . to read writin'. Well, how'd I know that the feller that... that wrote the writin' was a writin' the writin' right? See it could be that he wrote the writin' all wrong. Here I'd be just a readin' wrong writin', don't ya see? You probably been doin' it your whole life, just a readin' wrong writin' and not even knowin‘ it.” Festus on Gunsmoke
"You can rob me, you can starve me, you can beat me, and you can kill me, just don't bore me." Gunny Highway in Heartbreak Ridge
“When you tell somebody somethin', it depends on what part of the United States you're standin' in, as to just how dumb you are.” The Bandit in Smokey and the Bandit".
More about Jason:"Left employ of Miss. Supreme Court in July 2011. No one in the local legal community was interested in a 52-year-old junior lawyer. Good thing I can still be a law clerk.".
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