Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

Jerome K. Jerome

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• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Kind

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • City
  • Exercise
  • New

• I'm a natural blonde!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Natural
  • Blonde

• I've failed once or twice real big, independent.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Real
  • Independent
  • Big

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Design
  • Meaning
  • Excited

• I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Ryan Gosling

• The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Way
  • Question
  • Start

• Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Good
  • Long
  • Home

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Me
  • Mysterious
  • Telling

• I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Good
  • Love
  • Sports

• Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Live
  • Today
  • Change

• The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Great
  • Music
  • Strong

• I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Try
  • Healthy
  • Fruit

• Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Everything
  • Half
  • Out

• Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.

  

  Neal Shusterman
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Character

• I call this The Dictator Syndrome.  You see suffering or danger, and in your imagination you see a government program eliminating it.  But in the real world the program would operate as you expect only if you were an absolute dictator-having at your disposal all the government's power to compel everyone to do things your way.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Real
  • Power

• There’s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when you’re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; it’s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Walls
  • Hospital
  • Bricks

• He was never without misery, and never without hope.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Hope
  • Misery

• It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Suffering