Jim Gaffigan Quotes

We tend to outdo ourselves.

Jim Gaffigan

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• I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Up
  • Home
  • Reading

• Hail hero, hail hero, child of your fate Come into the kitchen don't stand by the gate And show us your wisdom before it's too late

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Wisdom
  • Hero
  • Fate

• A good pump is a silhouette, like the bone structure of the face. It's like a beautiful face with no make-up. You can cover a not-so-beautiful face with make-up, but it is just a mask - it is the same with shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Beautiful

• You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons. They'll play in a full moon, no worries at all. They only get scared of magic or werewolves from stupid adults and their stupid adult stories.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Kids
  • Stupid
  • Magic

• Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just flows for me. It's as simple as drinking water and having food, so definitely, music is one of the main purposes of my life.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.

  

  Mary Stewart

• I want to win a gold medal in London.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • Gold

• I'm trying to communicate here. I'm a communicator, I like to communicate, and if a million people buy it then we've touched a million people, if only 10 people buy it, then we've only touched 10, and that's important, because I'm satisfied with only 10. But, I love a million.

  

  Graham Nash
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• When I made 'Monster,' I didn't think about it being about a woman. I didn't think about that she was a lesbian. I was telling a story about a specific person who was tragic and looking for love in the world, and the more I could make her you, the more of a victory.

  

  Patty Jenkins
  • World
  • She
  • Victory

• Acting was fun for a while. I loved every minute of the really good things I did but probably wasn't as good as I should have been.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Good
  • Fun

• I think great bosses hire great people. 'A' people hire 'A' people, but 'B' people hire 'C' people; they're worried they might be shown up... they're concerned that that person might make them look bad.

  

  John Stumpf
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Punk

• Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • America
  • Young

• I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work. I see them and I have this word in my head - respect. I also look to learn. I see these women and I think, 'Yes, it can be balanced, it can all work out.'

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Women

• No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

  

  Edward Steichen
  • Good
  • Camera
  • Photograph

• Once in a while I say, 'Go for it' and I eat chocolate.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Chocolate

• Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.

  

  Charles Brent
  • Attention
  • Listening
  • Prayer

• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Respect

• The ancestors of the Blacks, who today live mainly in Black Africa, were the first to invent mathematics, astronomy, the calendar, sciences in general, arts, religion, agriculture, social organisation, medicine, writing, technique, architecture

  

  Cheikh Anta Diop
  • First
  • Invent
  • Ancestors

• We tend to outdo ourselves.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Ourselves