Jack Douglas Quotes

#1. Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.

Paloma Picasso

#2. Around the time I opened my second restaurant, Etta's, I had just finished judging at the Jack Daniels World Invitational BBQ Championship in Lynchburg, Tennessee. Back home in Seattle, my goal was to recreate the sweet and smoky taste of that BBQ using our local wild king salmon instead of pig.

Tom Douglas

#3. He couldn't grab reality if he attempted the task with both hands.

Kelly Moran

#4. Maybe all the events of the last few months had occured for just one reason - to bring Thad and me together. Perhaps our being here on the Titanic wasn't pre-destination, but rather, destiny.

Suzanne Weyn

#5. The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

Ani DiFranco

#6. Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.

Robin Marantz Henig

#7. Must one first batter their ears, that they may learn to hear with their eyes? Must one clatter like kettledrums and penitential preachers? Or do they only believe the stammerer?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind

Henry David Thoreau

#9. I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

#10. I don't know jack about wine, sorry." "You should learn. It is one of the true and ancient pleasures that make human existence tolerable.

Douglas Preston

#11. When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

Larry R. Thompson

#12. Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.

Douglas Adams

#13. I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called ... YouTwit-face.

Mark Frost