Jim Gaffigan Quotes

Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

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• Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Know
  • More
  • Nerd

• I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I never want any problems with anybody in this world.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • World
  • Want
  • Problems

• Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016

  

  Dan Savage
  • America
  • Savage
  • November

• So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Brave - American hero! Thank you John.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Great
  • American
  • Hero

• When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Real
  • School
  • Usc

• One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.

  

  Carole King
  • People
  • Trying
  • Home

• I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Fashion

• The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Choice
  • Word

• We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Job
  • Girl

• I'm intrigued by what video can do. It can endear you to a song that might pass your ears otherwise. You remember interesting imagery. It can change your perspective.

  

  Sam Brown
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Interesting

• When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Desire
  • Wish
  • Fulfilled

• Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reeds. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your heart to bleed. Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you, its only seed.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Heart
  • Needs
  • Flower

• I read a comment that made me think I should stop singing for a while. And I didn't want to stop singing, because it was the only thing I loved. At first I thought, "Maybe I'll get better and eventually please the person who wrote about my singing." But then I thought, "I probably will never please this person. I should just do what pleases me."

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Singing

• Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Needs
  • Books
  • Invention

• Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies - the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Human
  • Beings
  • Desperation

• Be very humble when you plan so that Krishna is happy with you.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Happy
  • Humility
  • Humble

• Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Known
  • Ourselves
  • Another

• Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

  

  Jim Gaffigan
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