Jack Lemmon Quotes

I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.

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• Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Women
  • Love
  • Need

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • American
  • President
  • Ever

• The most romantic thing someone did was surprise me at the airport, after being away for 3 months in Los Angeles. You always see people with signs, and you're like, 'Isn't that lovely?' and then you see your own name on one - that isn't a taxi driver's! I was very impressed.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • People
  • Romantic
  • Surprise

• Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Done
  • Golf

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Heaven
  • Religion
  • Bible

• I always have to be writing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Always

• I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Why
  • Nature
  • Human

• You lose the speed before the stamina.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Lose
  • Speed

• On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Lived
  • Loser
  • Tombstone

• When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Art
  • Same

• I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Food
  • Body
  • Eating

• Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.

  

  Larry King
  • Stories
  • Favorite
  • Les

• I'm just really excited to be doing what I love, and I think that's the best part about all of this.

  

  Alexandra Daddario

• I want a man who isn't questioning who he is. I want a man to be able to stand next to me and not disappear and not be emasculated by my success.

  

  Jessica White
  • Success

• It's funny - almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I have, are Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Friends
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• What inspires me about rap is that it's written in an almost poetic way. I just think it's so cool.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Cool
  • Rap

• Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • King
  • Faculty
  • Priest

• I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother