John Hodgman Quotes
One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm afraid one thing - I don't like heights. Heights bug me out. I'm not cool with heights. I refuse to do a comedy show 12 stories up. I'm fearless about everything else.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I think I need security.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.
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You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.
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Baseball wasn't necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I'd never played baseball or softball growing up.
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Response when asked by a reporter if his ‘relationship with the governor is deteriorating' No, I think it’s pretty much consistent.
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One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.
