Jerrad Quotes & Sayings

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life! — Francis Ford Coppola

If I don't eat veggies with a meal, I feel deprived. — Bruce Ames

As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere. — Madeleine Albright

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. — Zig Ziglar

He fell in love with a skinny stray cat that would skulk around the dining hall during meals. Every day, Jake would offer it sausage or egg from breakfast and pepperoni or hamburger from lunch. Every day, it ran away from him. But Jake didn't give up. Even when he had the stomach flu, he snuck out of the infirmary to try to feed it. He was not going to let it down. He would watch it from classroom windows. He even made up a poem about it that he sent home to his mother in a letter. Three months later, the little cat was finally hungry enough to trust him. It never occurred to Jake that the cat ... — Sarah Addison Allen

I spent three years researching American Rose, research that included connecting with Gypsy's sister, the late actress June Havoc (I was the last person to interview her) and Gypsy's son, and also spending countless hours immersed in Gypsy's expansive archives at the New York Public Library. I became obsessed with figuring out the person behind the persona. — Karen Abbott

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters. — Richard North Patterson

I live in Los Angeles and I like to do a lot of hiking. I live a very relaxed life. — Nathan Fillion

It is all we can do to try. It is enough. — Jacqueline Carey

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat. — Ali Vincent

They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page. — Richard Yates

Since nobody reacts to car alarms anymore, stop putting alarms in cars. Face it. At this point, car alarms are like Glenn Beck: annoying, pointless, and everyone's finally learned to ignore them. When I hear one, my first thought is: Please, God, I hope someone is stealing that car so they'll drive it away from my window. — Bill Maher

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal. — Cassius Jackson Keyser