Jeff Perry Quotes

I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

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• I never said I don't like gay people.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • People
  • Gay
  • Said

• When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • High
  • Pretty

• I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • World
  • Relationships
  • Romance

• Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Universe
  • Focus
  • Perception

• I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Great
  • Think
  • Company

• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Story

• War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Done

• In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Writing
  • History
  • Sick

• My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

  

  Dana Hill
  • Important
  • Love
  • She

• Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Simple
  • Forget
  • Marketing

• Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Like
  • New
  • New Things

• I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Life
  • Career
  • Eye

• During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Hope
  • Opinion

• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Faith

• I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Past
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Question
  • Interested
  • Answer

• The fear was all he had left, but even that was something-he was afraid, so he must be alive! There was darkness, but there was Simon, too! There were not one and the same. Not yet. Not quite...

  

  Tad Williams
  • Fear

• Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can.

  

  Jason Aldean
  • People
  • Music
  • Possible

• The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • May
  • House
  • Desire

• If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Environment
  • Body

• Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Curious

• For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Great
  • Children
  • Hope

• I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.

  

  Jeff Perry