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
  • Social
  • Now

• 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
  • Water
  • Myself

• 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

• I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Life
  • Up
  • Boy

• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Tears
  • Need
  • Ashamed

• We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Risk

• The only gay people who remain in the closet are those who choose to, who don't want to publicly declare their sexuality, which is true of heterosexual people as well. I don't walk around with a button or a T-shirt that says "I am a heterosexual." I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely. Although God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

  

  William Friedkin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Taken

• And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.

  

  Philippe Perrin
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Strong

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

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Grew