Jim Gaffigan Quotes

It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'

Jim Gaffigan

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• Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Quality
  • Patience
  • Physics

• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Naturally

• Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Proud
  • End
  • Seeing

• Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Help
  • Soul

• I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Think
  • Humor

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • World
  • May
  • You

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Birth

• Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Business
  • Mother
  • Advice

• I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Myself
  • Act
  • Others

• I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Important
  • Stuff
  • Notes

• I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Long
  • Man
  • Emotion

• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Soul
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• I never say I have a preference for one medium as opposed to another.

  

  Christine Baranski

• If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

  

  Edwin Catmull
  • Mediocre
  • Good Idea
  • Screw Up

• In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Today
  • Political

• Beauty is less important than quality.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Quality
  • Beauty

• It's not as if ten years ago, we were like, 'I wish I could take low quality photos of my dessert.'

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Wish
  • Quality
  • Lows