The Jeffersons Quotes

#1. of Place and the rest of her Hollywood oeuvre. Ferring had won two Emmys for Lakeview, the Jeffersons look-alike series she'd starred in. She'd been photographed at one White House gala with President Clinton and another

Sara Paretsky

#2. When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.

Heather O'Neill

#3. A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

Tracy Morgan

#4. I was very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

Isabel Sanford

#5. Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

Derek Landy

#6. Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned.

Joseph Bottum

#7. So many designers only sketch and leave pattern-making to others. Pattern-making is important so you know the structure. Then if someone tells me, 'I can't make a pattern from that sketch,' I can tell them, 'I will make it' and then they are quiet. If I can't make it, I don't design it.

Tadashi Shoji

#8. I conjecture that the origin of life and the origin of problems coincide.

Karl R. Popper

#9. My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

Caroline B. Cooney

#10. Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.

Famke Janssen

#11. If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

Sara Shepard

#12. We both know, you and I, that if all men were gardeners, the world at last would be at peace.

Beverley Nichols

#13. They say the first love's most important. That's very romantic, but not my experience.

Wislawa Szymborska

#14. What kind of assholes bring a kid into worlds like these?

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

Monica Crowley

#16. People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

George Steinbrenner

#17. Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

Elayne Boosler

#18. I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

#19. May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future.

Nanae Chrono