Jess Walter Quotes

My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

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• The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• I am not a slim person, so I regularly exercise to be healthy mentally and physically.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Exercise
  • Healthy
  • Physically

• I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Fall
  • Basketball
  • Sketch

• Men have not stacked the decks against women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Against

• Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Real
  • End
  • Garden

• I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Find

• There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Most

• Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Guy

• I've always just been attracted to comedy.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Comedy
  • Always
  • Just

• I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.

  

  Orla Brady
  • Style
  • Study
  • Theatre

• Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • People
  • Mind
  • Money

• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World
  • Effort
  • California

• I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Single Thing

• I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Work
  • Done
  • Happen

• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Gym
  • Eating

• I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Fly
  • Carry
  • Hello

• As threats emerge - from ISIS to Russia to the Iranian nuclear program - we need a president with the resolve to defend our country and not back down.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Country
  • Need
  • Down

• My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • English
  • Director
  • Roommate

• It needs more skill than I can tellTo play the second fiddle well.

  

  Charles Spurgeon

• The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their minds. So questions like Anne's are worth asking. To ask them is a very fine kind of human behavior. If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Up
  • God
  • Children

• That’s why I hate to take credit for the songs I’ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it’s been done and I’m just a courier bringing it into the world.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Hate
  • Songs
  • Credit

• 'I stress that I am not attacking Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, and the environmental movement in general. They have done some good work overall. I am merely pointing out that they can, and are, used to promote the New World Order, mostly (though certainly not in every case), without their knowledge.

  

  David Icke
  • World
  • Good
  • Work

• My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.

  

  Jess Walter