Jack Roy (Rodney Dangerfield) Quotes

I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

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• Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Book
  • Name
  • Profound

• When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Know
  • Passion

• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Know
  • Always

• Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Together
  • Help
  • Waiting

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Job
  • High
  • Focus

• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
  • Family
  • Society

• I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Television

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • School
  • She
  • Friends

• Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Stop
  • Yourself
  • Shame

• I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Attention

• If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• I'm not a big fan of watching my matches.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Fan
  • Big
  • Watching

• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Life
  • Man
  • Gardening

• In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Man
  • Growing

• Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

  

  Larry Page
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Where

• In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Question
  • Better

• I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Life
  • Wonder
  • Looking

• Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.

  

  Rivers Cuomo Weezer
  • Music

• Loopt isn't a service that keeps you locked in, staring at your screen.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Service
  • Staring

• I see artists as the first responders. And when the proverbial crap hits the fan, we are there to be of service, to tell the story, to bring a balm, to soothe, to provide catharsis. You know, not to make our work any more important or less important, but just that there is a great importance to it.

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Work
  • Great
  • Important

• Let’s not lose our perspective here. The Smokies achieved their natural splendor without the guidance of a national park service and don’t actually need it now.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Service
  • Perspective

• I went to a massage parlor, it was self service.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Service
  • Massage
  • Parlor