Jerry Seinfeld Quotes

Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a gap. When you stub your toe on the foot of the bed, that was a gap in knowledge. And the pain is a lot of information really quick. That's what pain is.

Jerry Seinfeld

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• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Rock
  • Players
  • Jazz

• The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.

  

  Vanessa Redgrave
  • Think
  • Society
  • Change

• The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

  

  Salmon Portland Chase
  • Looks
  • Constitution
  • Union

• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Good
  • Composer
  • Imitate

• I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • Want
  • Fight

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Want
  • Body

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Wealth
  • Intellectual

• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Song
  • Nice
  • Lies

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training

• Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Love
  • Giving
  • Best

• I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate, and she had a college degree, but after my father left, she took the first secretarial job she could find and never looked for other employment again.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Family
  • She
  • Job

• You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Perfect
  • Yourself
  • Guilty

• My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Knowledge
  • Wealth
  • Spirituality

• She's my baby sister - I could talk about her till I'm blue in the face.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • She
  • Baby
  • Sister

• The history of Buenos Aires is written in its telephone directory. Pompey Romanov, Emilio Rommel, Crespina D. Z. de Rose, Ladislao Radziwil, and Elizabeta Marta Callman de Rothschild - five names taken at random from among the R's - told a story of exile, desolation, disillusion, and anxiety behind lace curtains.

  

  Bruce Chatwin
  • History
  • Taken
  • Anxiety

• Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a gap. When you stub your toe on the foot of the bed, that was a gap in knowledge. And the pain is a lot of information really quick. That's what pain is.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Knowledge
  • Pain