John Hodgman Quotes

A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

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• In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Teenager
  • Ways
  • Normal

• It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Long
  • Career

• Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Success
  • Winning
  • Everything

• When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Country
  • Movie

• I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Sports

• I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Cool

• Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • People
  • Good
  • Support

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • World
  • Important
  • Me

• You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Growth

• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Fun
  • Kind
  • Role

• I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • People
  • Me
  • Creativity

• People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Remember
  • Where

• Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Jokes

• If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • You
  • Person
  • Confident

• There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Door
  • See
  • Key

• The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Men
  • True

• I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything. There are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask "Why are we here?" I might think about it a little bit, and if I can't figure it out then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Mean

• Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Amazing

• I like to make people laugh and have fun.

  

  Adam West
  • People
  • Fun

• We served Twinkies and Sno Balls at our wedding. We put them on silver trays so they looked elegant - but they were the real deal!

  

  Dylan Lauren
  • Real
  • Wedding

• Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Think
  • Wife

• A lot of my time is spent reading antique or out-of-print books of reference.

  

  John Hodgman
  • Time
  • Reading