Jeff Daniels Quotes

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

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• Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Knowing

• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Real
  • Love
  • Difficult

• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Bad
  • Places
  • Penny

• I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Like
  • Now
  • Legs

• It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Kind

• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Light
  • Problems
  • Darkness

• Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Father
  • Name
  • Grandfather

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • World
  • Live
  • Small

• OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Crazy
  • Very
  • WIld

• I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Read
  • Fiction
  • Newspaper

• Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Fashion
  • Needs
  • Everyone

• Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • World
  • Real
  • Together

• Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore sadly. "Because you are not nearly as mad at me as you ought to be. If you are to attack me, as I know you are close to doing, I would like to have thoroughly earned it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Mad

• I'm European, and my roots are in Europe. But Boston is one of the most, in a way, European American cities. And I think I'll find a lot of similarities, historically and architecturally and tradition-wise.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • American
  • Wise

• Sometimes I can wake up and I can beat anyone.

  

  Lukas Rosol
  • Up

• In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Truth

• ... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, – it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm.

  

  George Eliot
  • Love
  • Learning
  • Care

• Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

  

  Jeff Daniels
  • True
  • Comedy