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

• I'm understated in my approach.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Approach
  • Understated

• 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

• Ernest Mtunzi, Former UK Representative of Joshua Nkomo.

  

  Ian Smith

• 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

• I think if a person plays 'Quantum Conundrum' and they walk away feeling really intelligent and skilled, that's what I want. That's my only goal.

  

  Kim Swift
  • Feeling
  • Intelligent

• I've always enjoyed drinking wine, ever since I was in college. My appreciation really took off when I began to visit Napa. I was toying with an idea of making wine in Napa, but it's prohibitively expensive, and the competition is fierce.

  

  Kyle MacLachlan
  • College
  • Competition
  • Wine

• The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Great
  • Different
  • Interesting

• 'Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know - they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered/ We all know we die. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of beign seen, or heard, even for a moment.'

  

  Dave Eggers
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

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

  

  Jay McInerney