Jay Parini Quotes

The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Up
  • Want
  • House

• I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Films
  • Fan
  • Filmmaking

• Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Long
  • May
  • High

• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Tears

• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Nightmare
  • Fairytale
  • Turned

• When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Morning

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Better
  • Competition

• I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Always
  • Fight
  • See

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  

  Wendell Johnson
  • Remember
  • Words
  • Never

• Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Woman
  • Begins
  • Man's

• Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Face

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Work
  • Been
  • Netflix

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Long
  • Friend
  • Cool

• When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.

  

  John Carpenter
  • World
  • Science
  • Unknown

• I tend to be a bit of a workaholic, but I also can't function without some sort of domesticity as well.

  

  Jenny Slate

• The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • America
  • Citizenship

• I seek to call America home to those principles that gave us birth.

  

  George McGovern
  • Home
  • America

• The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.

  

  Jay Parini
  • America
  • Gun