W. M. L. Jay Quotes

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.

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.

A photographer's art is more in his perceptions than his execution. In a painter, I think the perception is only the first step, and then you have a kind of hard road of execution.

I try to be as realistic as possible.

The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

Congratulations to Mexico. They upset Brazil to win a gold medal in men's soccer. And after the Olympics ended, the Mexican soccer team, of course, returned home to their houses here in Los Angeles.

I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.

I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.

When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.

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.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet.

For the first time ever, overweight people outnumber average people in America. Doesn't that make overweight the average then? Last month you were fat, now you're average - hey, let's get a pizza!

Starbuck's is going to start selling instant coffee. This is for people who want the quality of Sanka, but want to pay the high Starbuck's price.

On Earth, we still have a beautiful atmosphere that precisely maintains a thermally driven climatic system that shelters, shields and sustains our natural treasures.

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.

Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

As fate would have it, Jay's status appears To be at an all-time high, perfect time to say goodbye When I come back like Jordan, wearing the 4-5.

I smoked some weed, and that's how I finished 'Izzo.'

There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.

Diet Coke with lemon - didn't that used to be called Pledge?

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

We need to get our sons and daughters home and their responsibility for the security of Iraq needs to be assumed by Iraqis who will stand up and toe the line for their countries.

Your heartbreak is just another version of the same old story.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

I miss third grade because you could kill people in dodgeball. Remember the rules to dodgeball? If you're fat or have glasses, don't show up because you'll die.

Now, I'm the most impatient person that ever walked the planet. However: for the best, you always wait.

A recursive definition does not necessarily lead to a recursive process.

I am quite fussy about clothes.

There was a climber named Bridwell On grade I's he did well. But on grade VI, he got into a fix and rappelled to the talus and hid well.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

President James Garfield could write in Latin with one hand while writing in Greek with the other. I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

The first lady said about her husband, 'I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures.' And today she was offered her own show on Fox News.

If you can refine your skills and eliminate your mistakes, you will start winning. That's the price you must pay to be successful in wrestling, and in most aspects of life.

But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to believe what we desire rather than what we observe.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress.

In corporation [corporate] religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

The NFL draft is going to be this Thursday. That's a huge night for college players. That's the night they start being paid over the table.

In what I like to call the Great Asymmetry, every spectacular incident of evil will be balanced by 10,000 acts of kindness, too often unnoted and invisible.

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.