John Hodgman Quotes

All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

John Hodgman

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• I would like to have my gun for protection.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Like
  • Gun
  • Protection

• I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Mirror

• Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Ambition
  • Meaningful

• The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Person
  • Poor
  • Interests

• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

  

  Gamaliel Bailey
  • First
  • Worst
  • Cheat

• I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Product

• Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Affection
  • Often
  • Mental

• No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Business
  • Dying

• Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Dream

• The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Women
  • Age
  • Best

• I think it was Elisabeth Shue who said that if you start a movie with a woman seen through a man's eyes, that woman is objectified by him throughout.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Eyes

• I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Think
  • Day
  • Outdoor

• I've been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Lesbian

• I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • People
  • Love
  • She

• Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Future
  • Political
  • Changed

• We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Dad
  • Feel
  • Years

• He's learning me all of his experience.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Experience
  • Learning

• Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

  

  George Eliot
  • People

• If I had about $100 million, I could do that ? that's what he left out, ... He makes about $50 million a year, so if I could pop that, he might have a chance. You know you're in the wrong sport when both your drivers have Lear jets and helicopters, and I don't.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Money
  • Chance
  • Helicopters

• I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.

  

  Zach Condon

• I raised my arms as if in prayer and heard the mutter of response behind me. Then I scattered the dried grains, red and brown and black, and studied the patterns they formed on the stone ledge before Sibbos. This is not such a mystic thing. You see what it is sensible to see, or else you interpret what you see so that the meaning comes out as you want it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Black
  • Prayer
  • Red

• TV can reach broad audiences, mass audiences, niche audiences; it can be local, regional, national; it can be spots, sponsorship, interactive. It can be anything you want it to be. I tend to think of TV as the Swiss Army knife of media, it's got something for everybody.

  

  Nick Manning
  • Audience
  • Media
  • Mass

• All books should be trilogies; I mean I think we all agree on that.

  

  John Hodgman