Jerry Lewis Quotes

I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

Jerry Lewis

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• In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Hope
  • Culture
  • Best

• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Heart
  • English
  • Speak

• Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • May
  • Election
  • Promises

• I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Relationship
  • Judged

• Even the ears must dance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Dance
  • Ears
  • Must

• I've witnessed so many meetings and conferences where people are trying to figure out what young people think, and my feeling has consistently been that you should just ask them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Feeling

• Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Spiritual

• I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• I don't do office work at home.

  

  A. K. Antony
  • Work
  • Home
  • Office

• The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Young
  • For Him

• I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Time
  • Myself

• Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Understanding

• I've had some pretty rough interviews. And it's funny when people are interviewing you, and they sort of don't really understand what you do, and they kind of insult you.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • Moral

• there is time to play...and then there are times to work hard and get my fans an album.

  

  Justin Bieber
  • Time
  • Work

• I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

  

  Mary Douglas
  • Alone
  • Personality

• This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.

  

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge
  • Love
  • Gratitude
  • Son Of God

• The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

  

  Steve Berry
  • Man
  • Die
  • Suffer

• One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.

  

  Alan Stern

• Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematical celebrity... is the Napoleon of crime, Watson.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Celebrity
  • Ex-Professor
  • Moriarty

• I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.

  

  George Michael
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Best Work

• I can't stand to ask anyone, 'How was that?'

  

  Jerry Lewis