Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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• That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • World
  • Love
  • Fall

• The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • School
  • Movie
  • Career

• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Art
  • Poetry
  • Shadows

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Different
  • Learned
  • Relic

• The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

  

  Ben Crenshaw
  • Game

• During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Divorce

• Television programming is the number one topic on Twitter, and dozens of start-ups in the social space are linking second-screen experiences. People no longer need to sit on the same couch to enjoy a show together.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • Together
  • Space

• There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Wisdom

• It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it.

  

  James Dyson

• Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

  

  Betty Williams
  • People
  • Hate
  • Peace

• In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers. I knew that wasn't an option for me. My mother would never have been able to afford that.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
  • Mother
  • Drama
  • Option

• I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

  

  Jonah Goldberg
  • Money

• We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time.

  

  Alec Waugh
  • Time
  • May
  • Wine

• I think people are universal.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Universal

• But when you want to come to work, it makes things that much better. Mentally, when you're at work, it doesn't feel like work. When you take the fun part away from basketball, that's a problem.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Problem

• I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Depression
  • Lessons
  • Franklin Roosevelt

• He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.

  

  Eleanor Farjeon
  • Life
  • Sea
  • Numbers

• Stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.

  

  Carmen Naranjo
  • Dream
  • Feels
  • Silence

• I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Line
  • Circle
  • Round

• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Style

• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  

  Jules Feiffer
  • Break
  • Maturity
  • Adolescence