Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes

Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

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• I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!

  

  Ed Harris
  • Family
  • History
  • Problems

• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'

  

  Mara Liasson
  • School
  • Black
  • Law

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Political
  • Involvement
  • Off

• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
  • Confused
  • Fan

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Solution

• Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Lies

• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Powerful
  • Rich
  • Crush

• Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Music
  • Different
  • Important

• I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

  

  Karen Allen
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Women

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Age
  • Think

• That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Great
  • Learning
  • Achieve

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Evil

• The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Mother
  • Best
  • Cool

• With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Running
  • Internet
  • Become

• Harry Dresden: The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Fire

• Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.

  

  Yasmin Zarine Shahmir
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Water

• One thing is having skated five of the best races I've probably could have skated. It was nice to peak at the right time and to do it in an important time in somebody's career.

  

  Eric Heiden
  • Time
  • Important
  • Career

• The movie business can be very frustrating and very circuitous; there's no straight path. You have to have tremendous perseverance, dedication and passion. You have to want it very, very badly and you have to deal with a lot of rejection.

  

  Denise Di Novi
  • Business
  • Movie
  • Passion

• I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

  

  Elizabeth Wurtzel
  • Work
  • Book

• Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Basement
  • Elevator