Jack And Diane Quotes

#1. Take 'Jack and Diane.' I was so disgusted with people thinking the line 'Hold on to sixteen as long as you can' meant to stay a teenager forever. What I meant was keep doing whatever makes you feel alive.

John Mellencamp

#2. The chorus of "Jack and Diane" is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.

Mindy Kaling

#3. Reacher was the kind of guy who solved all problems as permanently as possible.

Diane Capri

#4. He who fears from near at hand often fears less.

Seneca The Younger

#5. Gareth once told me that ignorance was bliss and I'd responded that ignorance was dangerous. We were both right. But which is better?

Demitria Lunetta

#6. Reporters tend to find in others what they are suited to find, so there is a whole school of reporting where they are cynical about the world, and everything reinforces that. Whereas I tend to be optimistic and be amused by people and like them, even rather bad people.

Ira Glass

#7. It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

P.D. Ouspensky

#8. A true friend, freely advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably." - William Penn

Shaun Gold

#9. Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

Diane Keaton

#10. The poem must resist the intelligence
Almost successfully.

Wallace Stevens

#11. I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

John Gimlette

#12. Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues and even all vices.

Fernando Pessoa

#13. Once I chose just to be myself, everything fell into place.

Dana Perino

#14. A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

Henri Nouwen

#15. For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: It is unlucky to marry in May.

Ovid

#16. And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

Keanu Reeves

#17. Proust is a huge author for me.

Rachel Kushner

#18. As it is, I guess I find "Jack & Diane" a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can't help but notice the wasteful frivolity of it all.

Mindy Kaling