Jerry Della Femina Quotes

I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

Jerry Della Femina

• Money

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I have been Fat Joe since I was a kid. It's always been my name and always will be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Always
  • Name
  • Fat

• 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Times
  • Drive
  • Sophisticated

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Like
  • First
  • Rich

• When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Me
  • College
  • Very

• Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Mind
  • Body
  • Human Body

• I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come back upon the mind with irresistible force.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Mountain

• I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Want
  • Wife
  • Car

• Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • You
  • Interesting
  • Kind

• It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Run

• I wanted to retire after I played for the Mets. My family said wait one year, that there was no need to rush it. I gave it a year and now it's time to say goodbye.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Time
  • Family
  • Goodbye

• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• We constantly had family conversations. A lot of conversations about life. We've always been a family to where we did everything together, whether it was karate or Bible study... I just really had a chance to look and learn.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Life
  • Family
  • Together

• I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.

  

  Garth Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Always

• I love entering the bowels of the cinema and immersing myself in another world.

  

  Alison Goldfrapp
  • World

• Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

  

  Peter B. Lewis
  • People
  • Money
  • Smile

• Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

  

  Bob Marley

• I don't come from a lot of money. In fact, I don't come from any money.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Money