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Maz Jobrani Quotes

I've made enough jokes about Iran's leadership that I'm sure if I showed up that I would get a nice escort - to the main prison - and then I could do a show there.

Maz Jobrani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: February 26, 1972

Topics

Leadership Prison Enough Nice Jokes

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

Joe Strummer

American You Rock Pretending Singer

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

Jennifer Egan

Adversity Person Resistance Respond

Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.

John Noble

Science Child Writing Regret Become

Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

Andy Roddick

Learning Day Youth Building Hands

That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.

Johnny Cash

Growing Up Singing Doors Back Dream

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Book Run First Everyone See Saw

I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.

Tony Campolo

Impossible Punishment Out Against

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

Rudolf Arnheim

Nature Science Man Hand Same Order

I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.

Michel Faber

Poor Always Out Craftsmanship High

I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.

Lois Lowry

Action Think Person Heavy Been None

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

David Soul

Think You Body Gravity Your Body

I want to be an expert in different fighting styles, new training methods, new ways of thinking.

Conor McGregor

Training Thinking Fighting New Want