W. M. L. Jay Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

I am quite fussy about clothes.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.

When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience.

Now, I have a Halloween mask I think you might get a kick out of. That's scary.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner played golf this weekend. Obama’s handicap is Joe Biden.

I'm developing some other things in other genres, including one dramatic piece. So, anything's possible.

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour and character ideas, which got me back into it.

Attorney General John Ashcroft said there is a new credible terrorist threat. He said everything is under control; not to panic. And then he went back to his harmonically sealed bunker.

I needed a break... from myself.

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.

Martha Stewart published her recipe for disaster -- mix one part arrogance with two parts incompetence, simmer in the juices and then serve hot in the can.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

The median isn't the message.

I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

Your presence here is is only a matter of conducting an experiment in limits, reminding yourself of what you aren’t.

The composition is already there, you just need to crop it

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s.

Because when you're posed, you know someone's watching. You put on your very best smile. You let your sweetest personality shine.

When people say stuff like, "Oh, that's soft rock. I don't listen to that," I find that elitist. It's music-racist.

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?

I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.