William L. Jenkins Quotes

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

William L. Jenkins

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• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Education
  • Attention
  • Brain

• In the U.S., search engines are king. That is because everyone already knows what they are looking for. Brands have been around for a long time.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Time
  • Long
  • King

• Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Man
  • Wine

• I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • Always

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Life
  • Society
  • Free

• By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Bullying

• I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Kids
  • Man
  • Film

• I pride myself on being tragically uncool.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Myself
  • Pride
  • Being

• Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Sleep
  • Succeed
  • Decency

• I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I am a horsewoman. I am a princess. I am Zsa Zsa.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Princess
  • Horsewoman
  • Zsa Zsa

• Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first learn to liberate their own minds from apathy and fear.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • People
  • Men
  • Power

• I always try to manipulate the eye when I'm dressing myself or someone else. I don't have an hourglass figure, so I'm always trying to give the illusion that I have one; bringing the eye to the waistline by adding a belt or having a heavier print at the bottom or at the top helps define your shape.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Trying

• Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears.

  

  Joanna Southcott
  • Music
  • Together
  • Night

• Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Small
  • Technology

• I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.

  

  Jamie Campbell Bower
  • Country
  • Real
  • Family

• During the curfew, whoever went out, the people were watching you. Any Japanese home, there was some person figuring he's a good American citizen by doing his duty, and they were watching every move each family were doin'. Or if they went out, they followed them to see where they were goin'.

  

  Fred Korematsu
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Friends

• You wouldn't have the same art on the walls at every restaurant or the same waiter uniforms. Neither should you have the same service style at every restaurant.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Art
  • Style
  • Service

• I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Family
  • Brother

• There are a lot of people who will tell you I'm very ruthless. I'm very fierce. If I feel I'm right, if I feel I've been violated, then I am like a warrior from hell!

  

  George C. Wolfe
  • People
  • Warrior
  • Fierce

• In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

  

  William L. Jenkins
  • American
  • Nation
  • Restore