Gary Jennings Quotes

When I was in Thailand, I went into the up-country because Marco Polo didn't get down into the flesh pots of Bangkok because they didn't exist in those days.

Gary Jennings

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 20, 1928 - February 13, 1999

Topics

DownDaysThailandExistGetPolo

Anybody can miss a penalty.

Mesut Ozil

MissAnybodyPenalty

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.

Sia

JobFunPeopleMeWritingCall

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

Tommy Lee Jones

CharacterLanguagePlayTryMovement

When I wrote the lyrics, melodies, and the first themes of 'Serendipity,' I tried to come up with some rare things you find in life, something very special, like the calico, three-striped cat; things that have extraordinary meanings in people's lives.

RM

LifePeopleYouFindSpecialFirst

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.

Mickey Drexler

OpportunityCoolThinkDesignLived

I prefer playing in the studio because you have much more control over things.

Michael Schenker

ControlYouMoreOverPlayingMuch

When you're not good, and you are losing, and a team puts 50 on you, you gotta figure something out.

Chris Harris, Jr.

GoodLosingTeamYouOutSomething

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

Chris Van Allsburg

KindBoyHubrisMidwestStories

I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.

Brooke Shields

SmileGirlBeautifulDepressionBaby

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

Arthur Golden

PassionJealousyHatredEvenQuickly

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Pola Negri

GoodGreatImaginationSayingSex

Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.

Scott Kelly

TimeSpaceForwardLongPlaceBeen

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