W. M. L. Jay Quotes

We're heading for a gov. shutdown. This is serious. W/o the gov who will fail to inspect our airplanes? Who will fail to secure our borders? Who will put us 14 trillion dollars in debt?

Having a life is easy. Having a career is hard to come by.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

How many are worried about a government shutdown? How many are more worried about it starting back up?

It's fun when you're driving, and people wave at you, and you wave back. I think you either like people or you don't. I mean, I don't want to put on sunglasses. That's why I'm in show business.

Donald Trump says he’s President Obama’s worst nightmare. That’s not true. Having to make a decision is Obama’s worst nightmare.

This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

I think golf is a waste of time and a waste of a sunny afternoon. I also stink at it. I have never found anything, including divorce and a sexual harassment suit, more frustrating.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

More than half your marketing time should be devoted to your existing customers.

They were fast-moving opportunists encased in cynicism and proud of it.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

Stay close to the young... and a little rubs off.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

You ain't gotta go to church to find your God.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night.

If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?

It was a weird mix of emotions. One day, your best friend could be killed. The day before, you could be celebrating him getting a brand-new bike.

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

I came, I saw, I conquered From record sales to sold out concerts.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

Evolution is an inference from thousands of independent sources, the only conceptual structure that can make unified sense of all this disparate information.

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Got some, dirt on my shoulder, could you brush it off for me?

Too much agreement kills the chat.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

We pass through this world but once.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.

Give yourself permission to make the story bigger.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

Passion is the gasoline of social media.

You must market your marketing.

Content that helps is superior to content that sells.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.

Everything is about accountability to the American people, accountability of the executive branch ... [and] accountability of the oversight of the Congress.

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

Why can't a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square; Eternally noble, historically fair; Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat. Why can't a woman be like that?

Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it

You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones.

The day Obama got elected, the gangsta became less relevant.