A. J. Jacobs Quotes

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

A. J. Jacobs

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• It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Love
  • Interesting
  • Two

• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Young
  • Danger

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Food
  • Green
  • Kitchen

• I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Up
  • Great
  • Writing

• I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • True
  • Black
  • Know

• When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Money
  • Think
  • Debt

• In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Children
  • History
  • Throne

• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Man
  • Laugh
  • Crying

• I like heels and make-up.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Up
  • Like
  • Makeup

• You were born as the one you are.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Born
  • Were

• I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Day
  • Rest

• If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • You

• The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Moment

• HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I love to act. And between action and cuts, when you work for somebody great, it's wonderful, and I still love it. The moment where you create, that instant is still magic to me. But, all the rest, I get bored with it - all the waiting, and the fact that you have to make appearances, that you have to share your life.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Work
  • Waiting

• I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Sin

• America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • God
  • Country
  • Why

• I love to dance. I've been told I'm actually really good.

  

  Lucas Till
  • Good
  • Dance

• Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

  

  R. A. Schwaller
  • Science
  • Humanity
  • Pretentious

• Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Earth

• I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Live
  • Clouds