Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.

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• I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Will
  • Parliament
  • Disobey

• Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Health
  • Service
  • U.S.

• Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Dream
  • Me
  • Play

• Because of my medical and ideological training, I am accustomed to saying that life is adaptation and symbiosis.

  

  Tabare Vazquez
  • Life
  • Adaptation
  • Symbiosis

• Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Sex
  • Dreams
  • Sexual

• In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Chemistry
  • Carbon
  • Organic

• The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Secret
  • Said
  • Now

• My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Die
  • Successful
  • Week

• I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Time
  • Done
  • Home

• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • High
  • College

• I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Jokester
  • Prankster

• I don't personally have a sense that life starts at conception. I don't personally have that sense.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Sense
  • Personally

• Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Character
  • Always
  • Fiction

• Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Life
  • Uncertainty
  • Gambling

• I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Free
  • Community
  • Smile

• The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide to become third party advocates because it will split the conservative vote.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Party
  • Hurt
  • Tea

• Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Life
  • Real
  • Blood

• The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Plenty
  • Knock
  • Don't Need

• On the path to ubiquity of AI, there will be many ethics-related decisions that we, as AI leaders, need to make. We have a responsibility to drive those decisions, not only because it is the right thing to do for society but because it is the smart business decision.

  

  Rana el Kaliouby
  • Business
  • Decision
  • Decisions

• One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • Picture

• You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year... unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.

  

  Bob Uecker
  • Time
  • Player

• The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

  

  Martin Filler
  • World
  • Experience
  • Age

• I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.

  

  Jim Gaffigan