Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes

Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

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• If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Man
  • Himself
  • Complain

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Interesting
  • End
  • In The End

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Music
  • Think
  • Competition

• Stay focused on the mission.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Mission
  • Stay
  • Stay Focused

• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Child
  • Promise

• It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Money
  • Cool
  • Little

• Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Understand

• I leave with sadness, but with pride: Dravid on retirement

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Pride
  • Retirement

• You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Power

• Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

  

  Haim Ginott

• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Truth
  • Justice

• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Taken

• A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.

  

  Charles Rosen
  • Music
  • Art
  • Attention

• I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor

• I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Crazy

• When you turn 60, the key is to not stop moving. Once you start to stop moving, you rust. You got to just keep going.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Stop
  • Moving

• I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.

  

  Andy Williams
  • Business

• If you look at the Constitution, the two clauses of the Constitution make it very clear the president shall nominate, and the Senate shall provide advice and consent. It's been since 1888 that a Senate of a different party than the president in the White House confirmed a Supreme Court nominee.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Different
  • House
  • Party

• We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Great
  • Know
  • Perfect

• Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.

  

  Jules Feiffer
  • Mind
  • Luck
  • Stumble