Jimmy Durante Quotes

UMBRIAGO!

Jimmy Durante

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• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
  • Why

• Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Positive
  • Sex
  • Islam

• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Day
  • Happen
  • Late

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Perfect
  • Space
  • Modern

• The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Planning
  • Modern
  • Continuity

• Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Body

• There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

  

  Najib Razak
  • People
  • Good
  • Progress

• I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • People
  • Learn
  • Mad

• I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Friends
  • View
  • Sarcastic

• I enjoy money.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • Money
  • Enjoy

• I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind trying to figure out the best way to be accessible.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Best

• Advocates of 'free speech' often repeat the mantra that the best response to bad speech is more and better speech, not the suppression of the bad stuff.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Bad
  • Free
  • Best

• I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Work
  • Want

• I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Country

• The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Question
  • Hero
  • Irish

• I hope, said the third, that your wanderings in lonely places do not mean that you have any of the romantic virus still in your blood. His name was Mr. Humanist.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Hope
  • Romantic
  • Lonely

• Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Words
  • Meditation

• You start out with your eyes wide open, and you've got dreams, and we worked really, really hard, and ours came true. So - and we're fortunate enough to keep putting out number one records, and we're fortunate enough to get out there and keep playing, and we truly have a blast.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • True
  • Eyes

• I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Dream
  • Girl
  • Wife

• Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by the time they get into high school.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• I've been interested in Eastern religions since I went to college because I was trying to figure out where I stood with Catholicism.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Trying
  • College

• No one would think of bringing a dog into church. For though a dog is all very well on a gravel path, and shows no disrespect to flowers, the way he wanders down an aisle, looking, lifting a paw, and approaching a pillar with a purpose that makes the blood run cold with horror ... a dog destroys the service completely.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Thinking
  • Running
  • Dog

• UMBRIAGO!

  

  Jimmy Durante