Kumail Nanjiani Quotes

I'm a massive rom-com head! Like, every rom-com in the '90s and early 2000s, I've watched.

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• In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Career

• A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Think
  • Question

• There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Words
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• I wanted to play Dracula because I wanted to say: 'I've crossed oceans of time to find you.' It was worth playing the role just to say that line.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Time
  • Play
  • Find

• For some reason, the fans got behind me, and I don't know exactly why that is. I wasn't supposed to main event WrestleMania XXX, but the fans were so vocal about it that the fans had no choice but to put me in the match. I've had a lot of lucky breaks.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Know
  • Reason
  • Fans

• We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Legacy

• Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Important
  • Family

• I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • World
  • Class
  • Mouth

• I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Girl
  • Perfect
  • Write

• Keep your head up and be patient.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Head
  • Patient

• I've still got a few moves from my days as a gymnast.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Days
  • Got
  • Few

• My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Good
  • Children
  • Friends

• The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• cupido dominandi cunctis adfectibus flagrantior est

  

  Tacitus

• And lovelier things have mercy shownTo every failing but their own,And every woe a tear can claimExcept an erring sister's shame.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Sister
  • Mercy

• When I think about 'Since U Been Gone,' I think the first thing that comes to mind is 'Livin' On A Prayer' - they're kind of like sisters, a little bit. And 'Call Me Maybe' was so wildly original, and so quirky, and so satisfying.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Mind
  • Prayer

• Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • School
  • Business
  • Job

• Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?

  

  Paul Klee
  • Artists
  • Evolution
  • Secret Place

• I do know Joe Lansdale has the most extraordinary voice you've ever heard in your life in terms of an accent that, when I started doing it, they had to go, 'Whoa, we need less.' But that's how he talks.

  

  James Purefoy
  • Life

• Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Laws
  • Principle

• Look realistically at espionage thrillers again. They're not only alive, readers are excited about them.

  

  Gayle Lynds

• I'm a massive rom-com head! Like, every rom-com in the '90s and early 2000s, I've watched.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani