Jeff MacNelly Quotes

I'm kind of a nerd. A square. And I'm terrible at telling jokes. I always forget the punch line.

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• The devil made me do it.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Me
  • Made
  • Devil

• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • You
  • Now
  • Authority

• The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Song
  • Me
  • Innocent

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Lost

• Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Good
  • Important
  • Energy

• There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Fall
  • Myself
  • Never

• If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Bad

• I like to eat. I'm always on the edge of how much can I eat without looking too – you know. If I eat something salty, it makes me want something sweet. I eat something sweet, then I want salty. And exercise is not my thing, though I do it.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Want
  • Know
  • Exercise

• There's something in us that lives just beyond our normality - and I think we've all got a song in us. If only we could master that tiny muscle and make it sound listenable.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Think
  • Song
  • Master

• Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Doubt

• Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

  

  Jimmy Swaggart
  • God
  • Perfect

• But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Important
  • Education
  • Health

• David Mamet gives me great heart. When I ask myself, 'I don't know if I can do this again,' Mamet would say, 'Oh yes, you can.'

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Great
  • Heart

• I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Real

• The 'Chainsmokers' found me early on, before anyone knew about 'Hide Away,' and reached out. I heard the demo for 'Don't Let Me Down' and loved it.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon

• It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.

  

  Anton Seidl
  • Singing
  • Sad
  • Wishes

• I do think there's a certain savviness to be able to recognize the way people want a good story, and I think that we underestimate that.

  

  Kevin Young
  • People
  • Good

• I've made the film 'The Good, the Bad, the Weird,' which was an Eastern Western film. Obviously, the Western film is American and American only; there's really no Western genre over in Asia.

  

  Kim Jee-woon
  • Good
  • American
  • Bad

• We didn't understand irony yet in the '80s; we just kind of existed at face value, so there was no nerd cool yet because the digital revolution was still in its infancy.

  

  Chris Hardwick
  • Value
  • Cool
  • Revolution

• Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars

  

  Darren Hayes Savage Garden
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Personal and mobile computing, long-distance communications, energy storage, and air travel are just a few of the things that have been democratized by technology, creating new possibilities for billions of people.

  

  Dan Schulman
  • People
  • Long
  • Energy

• I came to the ... open gate of mathematics. From here, well-trodden paths lead in every direction, and since then I have often spent time there. Sometimes I think ... I have trodden all the paths ... and then I suddenly discover a new path and experience fresh delights.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Experience

• I'm kind of a nerd. A square. And I'm terrible at telling jokes. I always forget the punch line.

  

  Jeff MacNelly
  • Nerd