Ken Jennings Quotes

For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

Ken Jennings

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• I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Country
  • May
  • Heaven

• No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Values
  • Own
  • Faithful

• Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Clear
  • Voting

• Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Question
  • Focus

• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Human
  • Strive
  • Conquer

• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • America
  • Present
  • Dark

• In the end, I was doing night shoots on 'Gilmore Girls' and then wrapping and going straight from 'Gilmore Girls' to 'Roadies.'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Night
  • End
  • Doing

• The Devil is a woman.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Devil

• I don't know how long I would've stayed, to be honest.

  

  Larry Page
  • Long

• I'd shoot for the moon, but I'm too busy gazing at stars.

  

  Eminem
  • Moon

• In sober state,Through the sequestered vale of rural life,The venerable patriarch guileless heldThe tenor of his way.

  

  Beilby Porteus
  • Life

• There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Great
  • Fool

• I go on Wikipedia and alter pages of animals with fake facts that I've made up about those animals.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Up
  • Fake

• I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

  

  Kim Carnes
  • Star

• I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Life
  • Moon

• I'm never comfortable being in front of the camera, but I've learned how to deal with it.

  

  Alex Wolff

• I didn't believe in marriage; I thought it was a silly concept before I met Matt.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Silly

• It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organization. When I say culture, you have one group that will have one set of priorities, and another with another set. It creates a different cultural environment.

  

  Charles Giancarlo
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Environment

• I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

  

  Kevin Systrom
  • Business

• March in Ireland can be a very lovely month, if you like your air rain-washed and your light wind-shaken.

  

  John Banville
  • Light
  • Air
  • Wind

• find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Lovers
  • Glue

• I believe ability can get you to the top,” says coach John Wooden, “but it takes character to keep you there.… It’s so easy to … begin thinking you can just ‘turn it on’ automatically, without proper preparation. It takes real character to keep working as hard or even harder once you’re there. When you read about an athlete or team that wins over and over and over, remind yourself, ‘More than ability, they have character.'

  

  Carol S. Dweck
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Character

• For me, it started as a child with one of those little wooden jigsaw maps of the U.S., where's there's crocodiles on Florida and apples on Washington state. That was my very first map.

  

  Ken Jennings