Jay Kay Quotes

I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room.

Jay Kay Jamiroquai

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I hope to get out before they start football next year.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Hope
  • Football
  • Start

• No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Stars
  • Sorry

• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Look

• The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Taxation

• I've enjoyed all the work I've done, and I feel quite lucky that I haven't been playing sweet girls all the time.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• The part of Stripe that I've always found most interesting is the idea of facilitating new commerce that wouldn't otherwise happen. Payouts is turning out to be a big part of that. These new networks are efficient, intelligent replacements for offline behemoths.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Interesting
  • Intelligent
  • New

• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • People
  • You
  • Cheer

• I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Always

• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Want
  • Man
  • Always

• I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Me
  • Religious
  • Right

• Taking the chance of making a complete fool of himself - and, sometimes, doing so - is the first demand that is made upon any real critic: he must stick his neck out just as the artist does, if he is to be of any real use to art.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Real
  • Art
  • Fool

• When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Writing
  • Beginning

• I'll tell you right nowAny trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find...

  

  Donovan
  • Book
  • Baby

• I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Friends
  • Together

• I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

  

  Charlie Sykes
  • World

• I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Food

• As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

  

  Afrika Bambaataa
  • Life
  • Reading

• The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • Life
  • Great

• The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter. You know, if it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

  

  Woody Allen
  • God
  • Evil
  • Under-achiever

• But you need to straddle the line, I think.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Need
  • I Think
  • Straddle

• In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Trying

• I'm very used to stages and dressing rooms. And dare I say it, much as I like being at home, I love the buzz of a new hotel room.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai