Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Jules Feiffer

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• Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much. But I've been with women over the years when my weight fluctuated, and they're definitely more interested physically when I am in really great shape.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Great
  • Women
  • Man

• The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Democracy
  • Road

• The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Men
  • Why

• The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Teacher

• First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Happy

• I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Love
  • Done
  • Think

• A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • She
  • Job
  • Professional

• In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Dark

• I envy those Hindus and Buddhists who have in their religion philosophy and ancestor worship which build in the believer a continuity with the past, and that most important ingredient in the building of a nation - memory.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Important
  • Past
  • Religion

• There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Money
  • Success
  • Feeling

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Book
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Help
  • Heaven

• Actually, lots of women, when they're pregnant, feel like steel. They feel incredible.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Steel

• Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Thinking
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Men who never get carried away should be.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Men
  • Never
  • Away

• I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Archie Rice: Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.

  

  John Osborne
  • Night

• I always try to get as personal as I can with the characters that I play, which is a reason why I don't play a lot of characters.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Play

• But could it be little me you was hecklin me Now it's monotony winnin regularly

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Littles
  • Bragging
  • Monotony

• Music, of almost any kind, always made sense to me.

  

  Michael Moriarty
  • Kind
  • Made

• A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • Mind
  • May
  • Together

• I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

  

  Jules Feiffer
  • Anxiety
  • Normal
  • Depressed