Douglas Jerrold Quotes

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• The first thing I saw was that Brett Rogers had his way very quickly - in 20 seconds - with a UFC champion, Andrei Arlovski.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Way
  • First
  • Champion

• I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Try

• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don't wish to have as their reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Reality
  • Wish

• I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Love
  • Nice
  • Obsessed

• We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Fly

• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • People
  • Radio
  • Holocaust

• If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Thought
  • Poverty
  • Abundance

• I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Kind
  • Understanding
  • Yourself

• I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Happy
  • Like
  • Film

• Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • She
  • Mother
  • Want

• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Taken

• Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Courage
  • Back
  • Daniel

• Cricket was my reason for living.

  

  Harold Larwood
  • Reason
  • Living
  • Cricket

• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Brain
  • Habit
  • Sorrows

• Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Nothing
  • Intellect
  • Senses

• I danced for 10 years. I was on a competitive hip-hop team, but then I, like, grew seven inches in one year - not really, but I grew tall and really lanky, and I lost all my coordination.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Team
  • Lost

• With the press there is no 'off the record.'

  

  Donald Rumsfeld

• It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Words
  • Discipline
  • Author

• Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Advice
  • Author
  • Judgment