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

• I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.

  

  Alain Wertheimer
  • Wine

• Where some people may see loving grandparents, I see a pair of feckless boobs who can't drive, take way too long to shop, and don't even have the most basic grasps on the new technology. As a staunch supporter of the principles of Darwinism, I think that advances in modern medicine are starting to overrule the survival of the fittest, and it's to our [youngers'] detriment.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Presidents aren`t supposed to spit, at least not obviously.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • President
  • Spit

• Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

  

  Ziad Abdelnour
  • Smart
  • Brave
  • Be Strong

• Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

  

  Eugene Kennedy
  • Teaching
  • Loyalty
  • Pope

• 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