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Colin Jost Quotes

Learning to be your natural self in front of five cameras and a silent studio takes time. Trying to be funny under duress is probably a lot like trying to play golf relaxed under pressure.

Colin Jost

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: June 29, 1982

Topics

Funny Learning Time Self Pressure

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer.

Melville Fuller

Men Summer Become Without Would

F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.

Maureen Dowd

Greatness World Him Intellect Means

Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal of those struggling to get their footing on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Yet raising the minimum wage hacks the lowest rungs off the ladder altogether. But economic logic doesn't wash with liberals who are intent on inflaming class warfare.

Angela McGlowan

Logic Betrayal Stop Ladder Class

As my manager says, 'These are wonderful problems.'

Jeffrey Tambor

Problems Manager Wonderful Says

Coal boosters like to tout coal as cheap and plentiful - well, not anymore. At least not in China.

Jeff Goodell

Cheap China Well Coal Like Least

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

Steve Berry

Knowledge Past World Country Out

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Rob Brydon

Positive Focus Think You Dark Want

I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

Ruth Negga

I Am Feel Look Know Say Always

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

Louis Sachar

Love School High School Heroes High

I definitely think there should be stronger gun safety laws, including prohibiting the sale of assault weapons, probably banning the sale of certain magazines that allow you to fire a large amount of bullets.

Lois Frankel

Fire Safety Gun Think Stronger You

In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

Joshua Leonard

Character Best Value Me You Movies

If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.

Dick Thornburgh

Power Voting Puerto Rico Will Over