Jim Gaffigan Quotes

I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

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• My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • She
  • Mother
  • Mom

• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Poetry
  • Years
  • Living

• A movie is about human beings, about humanity.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Movie
  • Humanity
  • Human

• True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • True
  • Know

• Just for the record, I personally do agree with some of the sentiments of Rabbi Meir Kahane. I think he was right about certain things, wrong about other things, but I have absolutely nothing, no association whatsoever with Kahane Chai leaders.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • Think
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Change
  • Voice
  • Before

• You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Children
  • You
  • Learn

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Now
  • Social

• The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Mistake
  • Voice
  • Easy

• My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Different
  • Love
  • Want

• I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Think
  • Person

• I'm one of those people who happen to like trees. I don't know why - I just do. As a kid, I loved to climb them. The distant, upper branches, especially, were celestial and alluring.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Why
  • Trees

• After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis's, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Water

• A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Freedom

• The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members ... a heart of grace and a soul generated by love.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Community

• Heart of my heart, we cannot die! Love triumphant in flower and tree, Every life that laughs at the sky Tells us nothing can cease to be: One, we are one with the song to-day, One with the clover that scents the world, One with the Unknown, far away, One with the stars, when earth grows old.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Life
  • World
  • Heart

• Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Up
  • Kids
  • House

• The fashion world tells me how much they love my work, but they don't hire me very often. Tom Ford did, and he hated it. Naturally, he wanted to Photoshop away the imperfections, which is perfectly understandable. They want their vision.

  

  Marilyn Minter
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Blind
  • Necessity
  • Metaphysical

• I think, if I had my choice, I would spend all my time in the studio writing, and creating music.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

  

  Clive Granger
  • Family
  • Tree

• The American people expect their leaders to condemn white supremacy in unambiguous terms. President Trump not only failed at condemning white supremacists and neo-Nazis, he stood up for them - for that, he must be censured.

  

  Pramila Jayapal
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Grew