Jim Gaffigan Quotes

Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

Jim Gaffigan

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• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Style
  • Driving
  • Aggressive

• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Determined
  • Ambitious

• I don't like possessions.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Like
  • Possessions

• Movies were a struggle for me - they didn't come easy.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Me
  • Struggle
  • Easy

• The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Rights

• Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Bad
  • Sex
  • Clothes

• As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Job
  • Future
  • House

• I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Up
  • Old
  • Valuable

• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Job
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Movies

• My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Life
  • Road
  • Magic

• We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Men
  • Women
  • Young

• The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • True
  • English
  • Honest

• Wherever there's an all-encompassing 'always,' 'all' or 'never' in your life, it's a sign that your mischievous subconscious is setting you up for failure by consistently leading you back toward these repeat performances.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.

  

  Jack Paar
  • God
  • Mind
  • Bad

• If people think I look good, it's the make-up.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Want
  • Trouble

• At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Rest
  • Feel
  • Sea

• History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • History
  • Never
  • Go

• The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Simple

• Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

• I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Good
  • Funny

• Most single guys I know think fatherhood is terrifying.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Single
  • Fatherhood