Douglas Jerrold Quotes

O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

Douglas Jerrold

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• Curiosity
• Overbusy
• Detraction

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• I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Trying
  • Inspired
  • Lyrics

• I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Support
  • Trust
  • Said

• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Books
  • Television
  • Scared

• As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.

  

  Patrick J. Kennedy
  • People
  • Security
  • Own

• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Aging

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Truth
  • Hope
  • Actor

• Listen to the sounds of nature. Wishing you the best on your trek towards your dreams.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Dreams

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • You
  • Doing
  • Ears

• It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Intelligent

• The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Opinions
  • Serve

• I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Fighting
  • Sometimes
  • Artist

• Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Good
  • Education
  • Support

• Should graffiti be judged on the same level as modern art? Of course not: It's way more important than that.

  

  Banksy
  • Important
  • Art
  • Same

• Through the program, they get the basics of what it takes to train.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Train
  • Through
  • Basics

• Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Love
  • Science
  • Literature

• If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Kids
  • College
  • Tax

• In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mind

• There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Death
  • Freedom

• 'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • May
  • Reality

• Most people who've had a big hit movie like 'Paranormal Activity,' the next thing they say is, 'I want to make a $100 million movie.' I have no interest in making more expensive movies.

  

  Jason Blum
  • People
  • Movie

• O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Death
  • Curiosity
  • Overbusy