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.

Spalding Gray

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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

• Generations of black women have anxiously watched as our children walk out into a world set against them. We teach them how to respond to police and how to react to racist comments, knowing that these lessons are not guaranteed to protect our children.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • World
  • Women
  • Children

• For me, it's a great joy to be together with priests: in the end, the bishop of Rome is the bishop and brother of all priests. His mandate is to confirm the brothers in the faith.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Great
  • Together
  • Faith

• But it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.

  

  Homer
  • Soul
  • Dream
  • Spirit

• Rank is a great beautifier.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Rank

• I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Time
  • Technology

• 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