Ricky Jay Quotes

If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

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• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Me
  • Films
  • Chosen

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • War
  • Parents

• I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Genius

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Important
  • Change
  • Walk

• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Little
  • Come
  • Enlightenment

• To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Poverty
  • Look
  • Irish

• Is that a real country?

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Country
  • Real

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Art
  • Soul

• Thus, in his belly, can he change a sin, Lust it comes out, that gluttony went in.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Lust

• 'Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.'

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Up
  • Sick

• Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Patience

• Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk

• People sometimes feel frustrated about what's going on in our oceans and environment, and 'Whale Wars' shows that ordinary people can take action and make things happen.

  

  Paul Watson
  • People
  • Action
  • Environment

• I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though... Maybe my wife would disagree.

  

  John Simm
  • People
  • Wife
  • Cold

• What the president announced yesterday, is that somehow magically, if we just continue to prime the pump of taxpayer dollars, we're going to see magically an economic recovery.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • Recovery

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• There is only one Art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Art
  • Power
  • Truth

• If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Truth
  • Sound