Jim Gaffigan Quotes

Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?

Jim Gaffigan

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• Education is the mother of leadership.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Leadership

• My party trick is that I can get ready to go to the party really quickly. I'm actually a woman that can have a shower, dry and style her hair, do her make-up and get dressed in under an hour.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Party
  • Style

• If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • You
  • Problem

• It's counterintuitive to take a long time to hire someone, but it will save you enormous amounts of time and money later. Our biggest mistakes in hiring stem from speed.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Art

• It's hard to remember a time when I wasn't writing.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Remember

• Gorillas may seem terrifying because of their bodies, but they are really magnificent and very gentle.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • May
  • Gentle
  • Magnificent

• Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.'

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Weird

• Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Trump

• Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Guantanamo
  • Be Closed

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Great
  • Man
  • Nowadays

• Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World
  • Money
  • Future

• As a kid, I just loved cartoons. And as the credits went by, I'd study those names and then try to figure how I could get hired to do what Mel Blanc and Daws Butler did. Create all of these great voices for animated characters.

  

  Jim Cummings
  • Great
  • Study

• Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Black
  • Community

• Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.

  

  Bernhard Langer
  • Important
  • Memories

• For an actor, if you're not doing a job, you can't just practice acting. Your instrument is your whole person.

  

  Charlotte Rampling
  • Job
  • Practice

• I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

  

  Kenny Loggins
  • Mother
  • Father

• When I was young, for some reason, I thought a postman's job was quite cool, and once, I even contemplated becoming a lawyer. Finally, I decided to dabble in something creative like fashion designing or photography. Till I joined college, I had no clue that one day, I will face the camera.

  

  Pooja Hegde
  • Job
  • College
  • Fashion

• I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high school. Blasphemy, I know. I'm an author now. Books and words are my world.

  

  Matt de la Pena
  • World
  • School
  • High

• What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • WIld
  • Traditional

• The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Father

• On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

  

  Nick Gordon
  • Firsts
  • Gentle
  • Hanukkah

• When Russians were having troubles, the Space Shuttle supported the Space Station Mir bringing up much needed supplies and replacements, critical spares, really. That they were able to keep their space station going for much longer than they would have without us. So, I think that shows the value of international cooperation.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Space
  • Value

• Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?

  

  Jim Gaffigan