Jay McInerney Quotes

You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

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• Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Gun

• Washington is a bubble, and there is nothing more powerful than the conservative grassroots when we are engaged and letting our voice be heard.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Powerful
  • Voice
  • Washington

• Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Want
  • Me
  • Son

• My kids think America is swimming pools on the roof, screening rooms, and hot dogs. They love it here.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Dogs

• If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back and try to rehash it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • You
  • Know
  • Try

• By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Years

• Israel's willingness to cooperate closely with the U.S. in protecting American interests in the region altered her image in the eyes of many officials in Washington.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Image
  • Interests
  • Protecting

• I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Modern
  • Alice
  • Wonderland

• Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kids
  • War

• When you literally build a state of granite, it takes a certain toughness and perseverance as well as a unique blend of community and independence: a culture that also helps spur economic growth.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Growth

• It is moral by his code to get into office by false pretences. It is moral to change convictions overnight. Anything is moral that furthers the main concern of his soul, which is to keep a place at the public trough.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Soul
  • Moral

• I think of myself as a Romantic Symbolist.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Romantic

• So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Death

• I had grown up during a time when Notre Dame football was held in the highest esteem. I listened to all of the games on the radio.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Up
  • Time
  • Football

• Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

  

  Christopher Fry
  • Coffee

• New York has the biggest, most eclectic collection of people in the world.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • World

• The threat that ISIL presents and poses to the United States is very different in kind, in type and degree than al Qaeda. ISIL is not your parents' al Qaeda. It's a very different model.

  

  James Comey
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Model

• I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • Success

• I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Lost
  • Dance
  • Period

• When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Power

• He used to say that virtue could make herself devoted friends, but she did not take pupils.

  

  Emile Souvestre
  • Friends
  • Virtue
  • Pupils

• You know, I'm always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.

  

  Jay McInerney