Jan Berry Quotes

Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch

Jan Berry

• Up
• God
• Light
• Hand
• Yourself
• Darkness
• Because
• Granted
• Pegged

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'

  

  RaeLynn
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and sometimes the world, and work on it and see how people react. You don't need Standards & Practices or notes from lawyers or producers to tell you what's funny.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Love
  • For Her

• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Art

• It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

  

  Banksy
  • Up
  • Great
  • Museum

• Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Point

• I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Good
  • Body
  • Yourself

• So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Up
  • President
  • Here

• Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Purpose
  • Yourself
  • Mighty

• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Up
  • Way
  • Treat

• I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Up
  • Want
  • Giving

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • Up
  • World
  • Beginning

• 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Light
  • Candle

• Panko are the elite of the breadcrumb world because they stay so crunchy and light.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • World
  • Light
  • Elite

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Yourself
  • Talk

• Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Deep

• I have very purposely never signed up with commercial lecture agencies as most, I think, prominent historical authors do because, to me, that's a contradiction of who I believe I am given my absorption of the teaching of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  

  David Garrow
  • Up
  • Believe
  • King

• I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don't pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, 'Oh, if God spares me next year...' or 'Please God...' but they're only phrases.

  

  Cilla Black
  • Up
  • God
  • Night

• My wife is a doctor, and we had a decent life financially. My kids were going to nice schools and had nannies. We weren't rich, but we were better off than I was growing up. And I looked around, and I was like, 'Who are these people?' It was the opposite of what I remembered growing up.

  

  Kenya Barris
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Delay is natural to a writer. He is like a surfer-he bides his time, waits for the perfect wave on which to ride in. Delay is instinctive with him. He waits for the surge (of emotion? of strength? of courage?) that will carry him along.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Courage

• Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch

  

  Jan Berry
  • Up
  • God
  • Light