Jay London Quotes

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

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• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Brain
  • Air
  • Body

• I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Myself
  • Something
  • Wrong

• I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Important
  • Friends
  • Company

• With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • You

• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
  • Nothing
  • Critics

• Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Soul
  • Sense

• When I taught, all my best students were women.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Best
  • Students

• Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Hope
  • Fashion

• If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • You
  • Listen

• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Diseases
  • Avarice
  • Fickle

• I like statement flats that can take you from day to night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • You
  • Day

• The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Understand
  • First
  • Endeavor

• When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • May
  • You
  • Listen

• When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.

  

  Tate Donovan
  • You
  • First
  • Fame

• The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.

  

  Imelda Marcos

• The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Mind

• People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.

  

  Berenice Abbott
  • People
  • Sick
  • Photography

• It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Today
  • Brain
  • Enough

• We are ready to build large underground gas storages in Turkey, to participate in the privatization of Turkey's gas-distribution networks, to use the existing and participate in the construction of new pipelines in order to supply our energy resources through Turkey to third countries, including in southern Europe

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Construction

• New methods change the experience, and new experiences change man. Whenever we hear sounds, we are changed, we are no longer the same, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds; music.1

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Music
  • Experience

• I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

  

  Jay London