Famous Jack Dee Quotes & Sayings

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people. — Kenny Rogers

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. — Larry Bird

The humble person has nothing to lose and nothing to gain. If she is praised, she feels that it is humility, and not herself, that is being praised. If she is criticized, she feels that bringing her faults to light is a great favor. "Few people are wise enough to prefer useful criticism to treacherous praise," wrote La Rochefoucauld, echoing the Tibetan sages who are pleased to recall that "the best teaching is that which unmasks our hidden faults." Free of hope and fear alike, the humble person remains lighthearted. — Matthieu Ricard

I believe imagination to be a uniquely human gift. The reason I like my job, and have liked it for more than half a century, is that I get to use my imagination. — Tyne Daly

'Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop into today's and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow. — J. A. Spender

It is terrible to see someone being beaten up by the English language. — Martin Amis

When we are prey to our fears, we have to remember that we are giving power to that which does not exist. And remember that the only reality is Unconditional Love: the eternal, immutable state of Being. — Human Angels

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion. — Hugh Black

The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella. — Cassandra Clare

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. — Jonathan Raban

If you let someone talk for an hour, you're gonna have a pretty good idea of who they are, and I think that's more rewarding than me sitting there going, "That's complete bullshit about health care." — Marc Maron

Even the Westerns that I grew up with, the Sergio Leone's and all that, there was always a sort of anti-hero, a guy reluctant to shame even, to pick up the gun again because he wants to help other people, and he does, he uses his skills for that. — Antoine Fuqua

When the devil grows old he turns hermit. — Ludovico Ariosto