Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon.

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• I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Think
  • Hate

• That's always an interesting concept when you try to make your dream into a reality and you come up against the facts of exactly what it is you're attempting to do.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Reality

• The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Weird
  • Dog
  • Bird

• Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Lies

• The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Art
  • Painting

• The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Truth

• We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

  

  Prince Andrew
  • American
  • Culture

• Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Night
  • Greek

• Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got.

  

  Les Aspin
  • Done

• For every manager, it is important to explain your ideas. It's very important the club understand those ideas and are ready to work together.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Work
  • Important
  • Together

• Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

  

  Lou Diamond Phillips

• When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Important
  • Age

• Let's think about Mexican streets: they're unsafe because of violence, so people stay at home. Does that make streets more or less safe? Less safe! So streets become more desolate and unsafe, so we stay home more - which makes streets even more desolate and unsafe, and we stay home even more.

  

  Emiliano Salinas
  • People
  • Home
  • Violence

• Remember, your body is a temple, not a 7-Eleven.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Remember

• I see the game differently than some guys. I'm always reading the next move.

  

  Draymond Green
  • Game
  • Reading

• My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and people here are so into the food. It's one of the most exciting food cities in the country.

  

  Daniel Humm
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • People
  • Music
  • Food

• The kind of actors I admire move through different characters and genres.

  

  Andrew Scott
  • Different

• In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Culture
  • Food
  • Cool

• In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.

  

  Eugene Linden
  • Faith
  • Consumption
  • Economists

• I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Up
  • Boxing
  • Neighborhood

• I don't think school reform should be motivated by missionary zeal. I think it should be motivated by evidence of what works. I have been critical of Teach For America in the past but I think one of the things about their model that's interesting is that they're constantly looking at it and whether what they're doing works and reassessing their model, and making changes. So to the extent that I believe everyone in the education sector should be looking at evidence, reassessing, making tweaks to figure out what works, I think it's a positive model.

  

  Dana Goldstein
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • School

• The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

  

  Hector Hugh Munro
  • Good Time
  • Elder Sister
  • South-Eastern express

• I'd really like to promote my increasing consumption of bacon.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Consumption