John Gemberling Quotes

It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.

John Gemberling

• Up
• Character
• Funny
• Baby

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Thinking
  • Hate
  • Loyalty

• I want to be here for a long time, so I am going to do everything I have to do to be here. And I want to walk my daughter down the aisle and give her away to somebody some day. I want to make sure I am still here to make sure my two young sons become men.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Opportunity

• I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Think
  • Attention
  • Push

• Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Justice
  • Better
  • Judges

• Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Power
  • Easy
  • Impossible

• In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Stage
  • Now
  • London

• I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • Good
  • Death

• One of the main reasons for wanting to perform live again was to have contact with that audience.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Again

• What America needs is not Robin Hood but Adam Smith.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Needs
  • Hood

• I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Simple
  • Football
  • Same

• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Write
  • First

• I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Thinking
  • Done
  • Learn

• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Mind
  • You
  • Happiest

• Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Thinking
  • Thought
  • Doing

• In the presence of our addictions, we are not free to ask what we really desire. Eros is silent. The addiction floods us with the noise of its demands, the plans for its satisfaction. There is no interval for deliberation.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Free
  • Desire
  • Addiction

• I do tend to be an anxious fellow, and I do tend to see the world as a little darker than perhaps it genuinely is, but I also do appreciate much more than a rosy scenario, I appreciate straight news. I appreciate honesty.

  

  David Rakoff
  • World
  • Honesty

• I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Life

• Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

  

  George A. Sheehan
  • Done
  • Exercise
  • Wishes

• Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments flit away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Great

• It's funny, I used to do a character that was just a baby - just an adult baby. I would get up onstage and complain about adult stuff, but as a baby. I was in a diaper, and I would require hugs from the audience and reassurance and stuff.

  

  John Gemberling
  • Up
  • Character
  • Funny