Jerry West Quotes

I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

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• I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • White
  • Next

• I'm totally comfortable with myself.

  

  Vanity
  • Myself
  • Comfortable
  • Totally

• I'd rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What's the good of living if you can't have the things that give a little enjoyment?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • People
  • Good
  • Wine

• My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Point
  • Favorite
  • Starting

• The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • World
  • Care
  • Story

• I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Sacrifice
  • Point

• One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Done
  • Things
  • Tell

• Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Music
  • Player

• Scarlett Johansson was wonderful in 'Lost in Translation,' and then, seemingly within a couple of weeks, she became completely Hollywoodised. I was shocked. I didn't recognise her. I hope to God it's just a phase.

  

  Ian Holm
  • God
  • She
  • Hope

• I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Seen
  • Insecure
  • Atlanta

• It's really empowering to have curly hair.

  

  Cam
  • Hair
  • Empowering
  • Curly

• Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Strong

• Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free, body, mind, and spirit, and if each man limited his own freedom. A good state or work of art or piece of thinking was possible only through the self-mastery of the free individual, self-government.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Good
  • Work
  • Men

• My vegetarian diet allows me to lead a healthier lifestyle, reduce my carbon footprint, and save the lives of more than 100 animals every year. I’m stronger and healthier than ever, and I feel good about doing something positive for myself, animals, and the planet.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Positive

• To speak falsely is the mark of a slave, but the truth is noble.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • Truth

• If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing.

  

  Lily Tomlin
  • Survival

• The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  

  Aristotle
  • Education
  • Sweet
  • Bitter

• Younger characters are just much more emotional.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Emotional

• Geoff Leonard knows more about me than I know myself.

  

  John Barry

• How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates liquefying in fiercer flames than they ever kindled against the Christians; so many sages philosophers blushing in red-hot fires with their deluded pupils; so many tragedians more tuneful in the expression of their own sufferings; so many dancers tripping more nimbly from anguish then ever before from applause.

  

  Tertullian
  • Proud
  • Christians
  • Philosophers

• Bacon is so good by itself that to put it in any other food is an admission of failure. You're basically saying, 'I can't make this other food taste good, so I'll throw in bacon.'

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Good
  • Food
  • Failure

• I think men are more adventurous in that they're more likely to take chances. Women play it safe. But now, maybe more of the women that see how it's working for the guys think, 'I can do that, too'. Maybe they'll pick male players, not necessarily female players; it's just whatever that match is that works for that player.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Men
  • Women
  • Player

• I often do things that surprise me, not to mention others.

  

  Jerry West