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

• For some reason, as time gets short in life, wasting time escaping through entertainment bothers me.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Life
  • Time

• Dear reader, with this book I want to do for you what my teachers and mentors did for me: unlock the power and beauty of mathematics, and enable you to enter this magical world the way I did, even if you are the sort of person who has never used the words “math” and “love” in the same.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Love
  • Mathematics
  • Reader

• A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Today
  • Past
  • Democracy

• I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Up

• When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

  

  Joe Rogan
  • People
  • Up
  • Guy

• 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