Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

Douglas William Jerrold

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• We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Wife

• It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Fun
  • Hanging
  • Bell

• If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • Death
  • Suffering

• This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Dog

• I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Father
  • Man
  • Eat

• I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • War
  • Beginning
  • Year

• A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.

  

  Ward McAllister
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Rich

• If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Career
  • Focus
  • Look

• With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Up
  • Character
  • You

• In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.

  

  Jackie Stewart
  • Air
  • Year
  • Miles

• I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Ryan Gosling

• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Proportion
  • U.K.

• When I'm passionate about something, I just get excited.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Something
  • Just
  • Passionate

• I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Reality
  • My Life

• Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Know
  • Lying
  • Chicago

• From the Desert I come to thee On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Under thy window I stand, And the midnight hears my cry: I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Book
  • Die
  • Desire

• The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Dominate
  • Sacrificing
  • Weaker

• This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Life is
  • Satisfaction

• There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Pain
  • Lies
  • Escapes

• Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

  

  Leonard Peikoff
  • Done
  • War
  • Conclusion

• I'm interested in humor, and greeting cards just happen to be a perfect medium for my message. They're accessible to everyone, and thanks to all the advances that have been made by environmentally conscientious printers, I can get my message across while keeping my carbon footprint relatively small.

  

  Anne Taintor
  • Small
  • Perfect
  • Thanks

• The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold