Jesse Tyler Ferguson Quotes

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Perfect
  • Old
  • Jeans

• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Brother
  • Three
  • Obsession

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• You put high heels on and you change.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • High
  • You
  • Change

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Run

• All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Many
  • Moderation

• Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Why
  • More
  • Many

• A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Good
  • Great
  • Home

• I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mother
  • Think
  • You

• Many photographers feel their client is the subject. My client is a woman in Kansas who reads Vogue. I'm trying to intrigue, stimulate, feed her. My responsibility is to the reader. The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • Trying
  • May

• I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Moment

• If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Great
  • Career
  • Cool

• That's another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Great
  • Getting Older

• There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and more productive at business, but I don't know of one that grounds any of these in the science.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Business
  • Science

• The question always arose from both fans and friends was, 'Have you ever done 'Star Trek,' and if not, would you want to?' And the answer was always, 'No, I haven't, and yes, I would love to!' So now, at the age of 57, I can finally say, 'I'm in the new Star Trek!' And I'm so excited about it!

  

  Doug Jones
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Age

• When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.'

  

  John Singleton
  • Mother
  • High
  • Small

• The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Important
  • Mind
  • Kids

• I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.

  

  Dascha Polanco
  • Time

• I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

  

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Great
  • Why
  • Mother