Josh Gad Quotes

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

Josh Gad

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• What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Hate
  • Better
  • Author

• I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Job
  • Best

• Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Poverty
  • Hunger

• To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Up
  • Night
  • Question

• Vulgatior fama est ludibrio fratris Remum novos transiluisse muros; inde ab irato Romulo, cum verbis quoque increpitans adiecisset 'sic deinde, quicumque alius transiliet moenia mea', interfectum.

  

  Livy

• To the eye of failure success is an accident.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Success
  • Failure

• Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.

  

  Brent Runyon
  • Work
  • Trying

• You have to make it happen.

  

  Denis Diderot

• I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

  

  Phoebe Snow

• I really like 'ICO' and 'Shadow of the Colossus.'

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Shadow

• Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Time
  • Live
  • Past

• I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.

  

  Lauren Myracle

• I don't miss television. It's too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I'd much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.

  

  Glen Campbell
  • Up

• The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

  

  Peter Coyote

• Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Long
  • Help
  • Control

• I think that if I were in a satisfying marriage, I would probably choose monogamy, but I wouldn't want that to be a requirement.

  

  Jamie Johnson
  • Marriage

• When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

  

  Colin Greenwood Radiohead
  • Trying

• I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Perfect

• We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Heart
  • American

• If everybody that voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Win
  • Will

• The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Actors
  • Ready
  • Flexible

• Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• We have entered a new and different world-richly interconnected and radically multicentric-in which the traditional holders of power have to move over and make room for new stakeholders, new players, and new leaders of many kinds. Nobody in Charge, drawing on the learnings of a wise and widely experienced public executive, offers some priceless insights into how things have changed, where they are now, and where we may be going next in this bewildering terrain.

  

  Walter Truett Anderson
  • Different
  • Moving
  • Player

• I'm unfortunately very verbose too often.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Verbose