W. M. L. Jay Quotes

Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.

Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.

I'm glad the government has shut down. Think about it, for the first time in years it's safe to talk on the phone and send emails without anybody listening in.

A top geneticist at Stanford says human intelligence is declining. You know what that means? We are seeing Congress at its smartest and most effective right now.

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

So much of contemporary liberalism seems to be never having grown up.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

[The Front Page] is still full of peppy banter as it sends its seedy knights after cheap scoops.

You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the Opposition in residence.

I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.

For every big American movie I've done where I was the supporting guy, I've gone back home to Canada to do supporting movies where I was the lead.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

A magic effect is never completely finished.

I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights

I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?

A lot of you cared, just not enough.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

We don't have titles on our business cards. No one really gets any special treatment. No one gets a corner office to put pictures of their family and their dog in.

The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

In the '20s they were telling us wed all have our own private plane and take vacations to the moon.

I model irregular clothing.

Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

After all these years I had the privilege of naming my private part, cause we have nicknames. So I named my private part pride... it's not much but at least I have my pride.

Vice President Joe Biden said today that 'Syria must be held accountable.' Unfortunately, the Obama administration has never employed an accountant, so they have no idea how to do that.

Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than Chinese kids? That never happens.

I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.

Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

According to a new UN report, the global warming outlook is much worse than originally predicted. Which is pretty bad, when they originally predicted it would destroy the planet.

History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

A guy gave me a job at an information booth - no questions asked.

As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.

Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives.

There are 249 millionaires in Congress. Remember a couple of years ago when this new Congress told us they had the solution to the recession? Apparently, they didn't share it with the rest of us.

The Pledge clearly acknowledges the fact that our freedoms in this country come from God, not government.

I use as sensitive a line as possible when I draw on the plate.