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Ricky Jay Quotes

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just... interested.

Ricky Jay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: 1948

Topics

Family Grandfather Talk Never Just

Sitcoms are what got me excited about show business.

Jen Kirkman

Business Me Show Business Excited

I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

Steven Wright

Comedy Doing Looks Three Nothing

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

Michele Bachmann

Tea Rose Party Spontaneous Movement

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

Ludacris

Love Car Luxury Muscle Everything

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

Wisdom Yourself Always Somebody Else

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Age Youth Believe Forward Look Seem

I think an art collection is a lot like a diary. Your taste evolves with time. I try to never sell anything, because it's part of my journey.

Delphine Arnault

Journey Time Art Think Try Never

People read stuff over your shoulder when you're in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.

Chelsea Cain

People You Kind Write Over Shoulder

I do a lot of traveling around the world.

Chris Tucker

World Traveling Around Lot

My citizen activism is a direct outgrowth of a classical and fiscally conservative training in economics at Harvard. It is a perspective rooted in one of the most important concepts in economics - the need for government intervention in the presence of a market failure.

Peter Navarro

Failure Perspective Training Citizen

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

Thomas Carlyle

Men Than Ought Less Unless

Yes, I was a bully. But the scrapping on the streets was my way of dealing with the anger I felt towards my parents.

Mark Hunt

Anger Parents Way Yes Streets Bully