Jim Gaffigan Quotes
My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?'
Quotes to Explore
-
I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
-
I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
-
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
-
China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
-
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
-
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
-
All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
-
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
-
One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
-
What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
-
Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
-
If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
-
It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
-
I was from a tough neighborhood, and we didn't have a lot of money, but my dad worked hard, and my mom is good at budgeting things. That made me appreciate things.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
-
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
-
No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
-
The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.
-
I hate to plan my life.
-
You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long.
-
I was a little geeky kid anyway. If I wasn't shooting little stop-animation films, then I was playing computer games or Dungeons & Dragons.
-
Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid.
-
My kids are always awake. It's they're taking shifts. 'Alright, I'll annoy 'em from midnight to . Who wants to ?'
