Bob Saget Quotes

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

Bob Saget

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• I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Know

• Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Car

• What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Man

• I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • For Her

• I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Why
  • Universe
  • Dark

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Listening
  • Murmuring

• I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Advice

• My view of civilization is that there have always been small pockets of good, decent, kind people surrounded by corrupt and evil power structures. It's always a battle to stay on the side of good.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • People
  • Good
  • Power

• The positive is I'm delighted at the way the Liberal Democrats as a party have supported me and the way in which the work I'm doing, through the Liberal Democrats, has abled to broaden some of the work I work on.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Work
  • Party
  • Positive

• I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • More
  • Uncomfortable
  • Her

• I think the rejection - if it's taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I've always striven for. If one thing didn't work out, a project or anything, it doesn't mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Taken

• The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Holiday

• I'm in the fourth row, signing autographs at your show.

  

  Eminem
  • Show
  • Autographs
  • Signing

• Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? in every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • God
  • Die

• Some part of life – perhaps the most important part – must be left to the spontaneous action of individual impulse, for where all is system there will be mental and spiritual death.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Important
  • Death

• First silence. Then denial. Then support of the insupportable. Then vilification of the dissenters. The pattern is as old as time.

  

  Andrew Sullivan
  • Time
  • Support
  • Silence

• I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American.

  

  Alessandro Nivola
  • American

• Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.

  

  Brad Feld
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• There's so much power in allegory, to form ideas and learn lessons that you can actually take and apply to real life. I think that's why I originally really loved fantasy and reading.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Life
  • Real
  • Why

• My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it, was those moments when you think you know what it might sound like, but you don't, and then you hit it, and it's a total surprise. You hear it with really fresh ears. Alternate tunings, for me, they give that back.

  

  Charlie Worsham
  • Learning
  • Moments

• I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

  

  Bob Saget