Bill Konigsberg Quotes

Acceptance is an affirmation that you’re good enough.

Bill Konigsberg

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• Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • May
  • Truth
  • Day

• You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Know
  • Doubt

• I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Up
  • Live
  • Money

• If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Tennis

• Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • Nature
  • Man

• To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • Think
  • Movies
  • Fair

• Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased striving for anything resembling perfection when it comes to managing your money.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • Money
  • Perfection

• I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight,New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Light
  • Sun

• Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.

  

  Addison Mizner

• Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.

  

  Jimmy Durante
  • People
  • Up

• There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

  

  Anne Stevenson
  • Why
  • Criticism

• We must continue to foster relevant and constructive dialogue among Israeli and Palestinian communities.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry

• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike

• Most people that take jobs as police officers are taking them because they're good jobs. Many who go into these jobs are doing it because it's good work.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Long

• I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • True

• Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

  

  Marketa Irglova

• Health care confronts us with a difficult test. We have never corrected failure in something so deeply embedded in people's lives and in the economy without the pressure of an outright crisis.

  

  Atul Gawande
  • People
  • Health
  • Failure

• I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Beauty
  • Existence
  • Worship

• We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • You
  • Know

• Jools Holland: 'Knock Knock!' Morrissey: 'I'm not in!' Jools: 'Oh, come on.' Morrissey: 'I refuse to open the door.'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Door

• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
  • Process
  • Healing

• People always say to me, 'It must have been wonderful coming from old Hollywood, with all those movie stars,' but I never knew anyone. I didn't even know who Charlie Chaplin was. My parents really kept me away from it all.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Movie
  • Parents

• Acceptance is an affirmation that you’re good enough.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Acceptance
  • Affirmation