Jeff Foxworthy Quotes

We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

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• Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • World
  • Long
  • Science

• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man

• Every country when they have Olympics, a lot of people come out opposed.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Country
  • Olympics

• When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Men
  • Community

• You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Think
  • Never
  • Same

• We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Hours
  • Four
  • Six

• It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Important
  • Trust
  • Justice

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Problem
  • Best
  • Baseball

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Never
  • Jump

• There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Singing
  • Doing
  • Boring

• I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.

  

  Ian Hart
  • American
  • Films
  • Attracted

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cost

• A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Long
  • Government
  • Never

• All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.

  

  Action Bronson
  • People
  • Good
  • Decision

• If banks anticipate government will come to the rescue should the credit market go badly awry, they may make loans that would otherwise be imprudent, e.g. subprime loans with little prospect of repayment.

  

  Eric Maskin
  • May

• When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.

  

  Masaharu Morimoto
  • Up
  • Home
  • Road

• I didn't grow up eating meat - I was a vegetarian until I was 18.

  

  Daphne Oz
  • Up

• I have so often been asked the question: "But how did you come to think of The Scarlet Pimpernel?" And my answer has always been: "It was God's will that I should." And to you moderns, who perhaps do not believe as I do, I will say, "In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny."

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

  

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger
  • Time

• We're all screwed up. And the way Christians mess things up is we act like we've got it going on. And if we would just stay in that place of, 'Hey, we're all screwed up and but for the grace of God, none of us have a shot here.' We need to have a sense of humor about it; that's kind of the way I've always faced my comedy.

  

  Jeff Foxworthy
  • Up
  • God
  • Comedy