Josh Gondelman Quotes

I don't consider myself a nerd; I consider myself a dork more. I'm closer to a dork, if anything, just because I'm not good at stuff. I'm more like a failed non-nerd.

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• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • American
  • Problem

• Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Simple
  • Beauty
  • Stand

• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Women
  • Exercise

• At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Trying
  • Age

• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Die

• I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Happy

• We're not telling you that you need a concealer. We're providing a concealer in case you want it. We're trying to give you the tools to be able to make whatever decision you want.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Trying
  • Decision

• I'm a hard worker. I'm a people person.

  

  Bobby Schilling
  • People

• I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Up
  • Great
  • Winter

• The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

  

  Maxfield Parrish
  • Experience
  • Light
  • Space

• I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

  

  David Guterson

• Our brains are very, very good at self-delusion. What happens is, it releases the stress hormone cortisol in the brain, which leads to foggy thinking, so you're not even able to judge well whether you're working well or not.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She's mesmerizing.

  

  Megan Fox
  • She
  • Girl
  • Relationship

• I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of people don't like working with children, but I love it.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • People
  • Children
  • Done

• I used to work the graveyard shift.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Work

• I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Good

• My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth and tats. His history is hinted at in Discourse, and I plan to explore it more in later books.

  

  Paul S. Kemp
  • Character
  • Book
  • Favorite

• I have to have routine check-ups every three to six months. While the cardiologists think I can compete, there is no problem. I didn't consider quitting. Once the cardiologists said I could run, I decided to fight.

  

  Francisco Javier Gomez Noya
  • Problem
  • Consider
  • Months

• I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • People
  • Society
  • Opinion

• I'm totally clean and sober my whole life.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Life

• I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Writing
  • House
  • Novelists

• I don't consider myself a nerd; I consider myself a dork more. I'm closer to a dork, if anything, just because I'm not good at stuff. I'm more like a failed non-nerd.

  

  Josh Gondelman
  • Consider
  • Nerd
  • Failed