Jay Garner Quotes

We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

Jay Garner

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Think
  • You
  • Funny

• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Best
  • Honor

• The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Thought

• Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Important
  • Support
  • Taken

• I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Time
  • Kids

• When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Why
  • Eye

• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Saying
  • Expert

• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Strong

• It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Matter

• The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.

  

  Kaskade
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Stars

• We as a nation have no choice but to conserve fuel to the best of our abilities or be prepared for harsh measures like steep price increase, if the need so arises.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Best
  • Choice
  • Be Prepared

• I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Knowledge
  • Myself
  • Secrets

• I thought the Hall of Fame was for superstars, not just average players like me.

  

  Earle Combs
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Fame

• I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Like
  • Guitar
  • Awesome

• I know what poverty is.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Poverty

• And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin their stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stopped. They refuseto be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Sea
  • Blessed

• Unconditional love is all you have. You can't overdose on love, you never can. It's a beautiful thing.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Unconditional Love

• Far away, I feel your beating heart All alone, beneath the crystal stars Staring into space, what a lonely face I’ll try to find my place with you What a beautiful smile Can you stay for a while? On this beautiful night We’ll make everything right My beautiful love, my beautiful love

  

  The Afters
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Smile

• We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile.

  

  Jay Garner
  • Smile
  • Mirror