Johnny Gimble Quotes

I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.

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• I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.

  

  Larry David
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Feel

• Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Art
  • Saying
  • Gossip

• Working with special needs children is hard.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Children
  • Working
  • Special

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• I have never had personal debt and never will.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Never
  • Personal
  • Debt

• It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Light

• Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Truth
  • Society
  • Strong

• I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Live
  • Day

• After the 1960s and '70s, there were real doubts about whether a mortal man could handle the country's highest office. It had destroyed Johnson, corrupted Nixon, and overwhelmed Ford and Carter.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Country
  • Real
  • Man

• Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Try

• I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Exposed

• I took all of my rejection letters - there must have been thousands of them in a huge box - and I went out on the curb and burned them all, crying.

  

  Janet Evanovich
  • Crying
  • Rejection

• I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I think storytelling is all about children. We human beings love to hear stories being told - and it first happens when you're a kid.

  

  David Chase
  • Children

• It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Nice
  • Healing
  • Creepy

• When Raghavendra Rao garu approached me to do a film on Lord Venkateswara, my initial response was 'What more can we do than Annamayya?' But he asked me to go through the script, and I really liked it.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna

• I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

  

  Bennett Miller

• I guess I compete in everything I do, but it's always good to get out and be active and find an outlet for all of that pent-up aggression you had as an athlete.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Up
  • Good
  • Athlete

• The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.

  

  David Swing
  • Beautiful
  • Quality
  • Honesty

• "You going back," she said. "You ain't going to run away from this, Grant."

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Running
  • Said

• I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Country
  • Cool
  • Listening

• I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.

  

  Johnny Gimble
  • Listening
  • Grew Up