Jane Lynch Quotes

I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.

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• I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • Future
  • Boring

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Country
  • You
  • Living

• The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Technology

• The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Action
  • Woman
  • Prayer

• It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Game
  • Want
  • Change

• The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Animals
  • Domestic
  • Unconditional

• God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • God
  • Service
  • Voice

• On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Girl

• Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Politics
  • Yourself
  • Grace

• When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • People
  • Country
  • Future

• I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Up
  • Die
  • Never

• The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • History
  • Think
  • Death

• We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • School
  • Education
  • Year

• I got a lot of problems, but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself, I know when to start, I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely, and so I just take my time.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Good
  • Happy

• Despite its obscurity, probably no element on the periodic table has as colorful a history as antimony. Money, madness, poison, linguistics, charlatanism, sex - pretty much every theme that runs through the periodic table can be found in Element 51.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Money
  • History
  • Pretty

• American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • World
  • Power
  • American

• It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Help

• Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there and all the comic book writers I know and then a lot of actors, too, and you hang out with these people for just a few days, but you hang out with them all day, every day. It's like camp - it's like a weird camp. I love it.

  

  Brea Grant
  • People
  • God
  • Book

• A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Writing
  • Childhood
  • Continuation

• I've never been a cheerleader. It's so outside of my range of things I could ever do.

  

  Jane Lynch