Jeff MacNelly Quotes

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

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• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Success
  • Research

• In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • School
  • American
  • History

• If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Rules
  • August

• There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Now
  • Collaboration

• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • True
  • Always
  • Away

• Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Community
  • Europe

• Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Want
  • Deep
  • Choices

• I know what it feels like to represent clients who can't get restraining orders on abusive partners.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Clients

• I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Feel
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Plague
  • Eminence
  • Stares

• I try to get up every day.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Up

• A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.

  

  Arianna Huffington
  • Country
  • America
  • Political

• Good morning, son In twenty years from now Maybe we'll both sit down and have a few beers And I can tell you 'bout today And how I picked you up and everything changed.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Up
  • Good
  • Today

• We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe...

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Universe
  • Logic
  • Homeless

• To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Fall

• TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

  

  David Anders
  • Good
  • Hope

• For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character: for obedience is the constant will to execute what, by the general decree of the commonwealth, ought to be done.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• When we repent, the Lord allows us to put the mistakes of the past behind us.

  

  C. Scott Grow
  • Past
  • Mistake
  • Lord

• I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

  

  Jeff MacNelly