John Hodgman Quotes

My fame is due to broadcast television.

John Hodgman

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• I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Truth
  • Think
  • Ready

• The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Just
  • Computer
  • Laptop

• You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Sheep

• MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Imagination
  • Aesthetic

• There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Man
  • Words
  • College

• If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

  

  Carl Olson
  • You
  • Control
  • Mechanical

• Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

  

  Ed Case
  • Want
  • Change
  • Vote

• Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Endure

• Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Man
  • Small

• Americans deserve a better tomorrow, today.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Today
  • Better
  • Tomorrow

• When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • You
  • Star
  • Make

• At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Great
  • Reading
  • Pressure

• I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • May
  • Eyes
  • Red

• I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • Believe
  • Question

• … when was a woman ever witty without being bitter?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Bitter
  • Witty

• Is it possible to observe without the observer?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

• But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications, targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.

  

  David Milne
  • Growing
  • Technology

• Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Hand
  • King

• It is a lot cheaper to spend eight hours in a rehearsal hall than in a recording studio.

  

  Jim Messina Buffalo Springfield

• If I read the Bible, I can also find a few harsh verdicts. Every religion can be abused. We're not talking here about religion and faith. We are talking about the politicization of Islam, and, by the way, it is first and foremost exerting pressure on the majority of peaceful Muslims who live here in Germany.

  

  Alice Schwarzer
  • Bible
  • Verdicts
  • Politicization

• My fame is due to broadcast television.

  

  John Hodgman