Spalding Gray Quotes

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

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• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Water
  • Growth
  • Key

• It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Stupid
  • Said
  • Islam

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Security
  • Immigration

• I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Woman

• Before training, I eat slow-release energy food, such as porridge or muesli, especially in the morning. Afterwards, I eat protein so my muscles are able to recover, such as a protein bar followed by a meal of chicken and vegetables. I always stay hydrated during workouts by drinking plenty of water throughout.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Water

• I don't want to live on past records.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Live
  • Want
  • Past

• When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

  

  Pat Boone
  • People
  • Political
  • Caring

• The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Up
  • You

• My parents have sailed around the world; they know what can happen and that it's not always fun, but because I want to do it so much, they agreed and supported me.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Fun
  • Parents

• Lo! the moon ascending!Up from the East, the silvery round moon;Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon;Immense and silent moon.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Up
  • House
  • Beautiful

• The poet must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Future

• How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?

  

  Zell Miller
  • People
  • Great

• I want to educate people and deliver news that isn't just surrounded by Charlie Sheen. I'd like to be able to do the serious stuff in conjunction with the comedy.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • Important
  • Children

• It means the world to me to represent the Hispanic community.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • World
  • Community

• I love watching people tell stories, because it's very vulnerable.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • People

• Terms like 'liberty' and 'individual freedom' invoked by generations of Americans who battled to widen the 1787 promise to 'promote the general welfare' have been perverted to create a government primarily dedicated to the state and the political class that runs it. Yes, Virginia, there is a class war and ordinary people are losing it.

  

  Bill Moyers
  • People
  • War
  • Political

• Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Fans
  • Faithful
  • Kindle

• My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.

  

  Brian Dennehy
  • Morning
  • Moving
  • Fire

• How do we know when someone like Hasan is going to make his move and do we know he's an Islamist until he's made his move? He makes a phone call or whatever, according to Reuters right now. Apparently he tried to contact al-Qaida. Is that the point at which you say, "This guy is dangerous?" That's not a crime to call up al-Qaida, is it? Is it? I mean, where do you stop the guy?

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Stop

• I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Moving
  • Camels
  • Psychosis