Quotes of Jack - somelinesforyou

“ I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. ”

- Nicholson Baker

“ Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! ”

- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“ There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ”

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

“ I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting. ”

- Jackie Kennedy

“ Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. ”

- Jackie Kennedy

“ I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you're a nice guy. ”

- Marilyn Monroe

“ The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods. ”

- Gary Player

“ One of the reasons I got into this business is because I was a jack-of-all-trades. When I wa in school, I was the singer, the dancer, member of the track team, and a cheerleader. ”

- Michelle Thomas

“ After starting her career as a beauty queen on the fleshy fringes of show business, Imelda grew into bigger roles, playing Jackie to her husband's Jack, Bonnie to his Clyde, Evita to his strongman. ”

- Russell Watson

“ Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks. ”

- Laura Swenson

“ Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest. ”

- Bible

“ Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real. ”

- Tim Burton

“ The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it. ”

- William Cowper

“ The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ I'm not Jack Nicholson. I'm not Brando. But I do mumble. ”

- Benicio Del Toro

“ I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.". ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and Jill a wealthy widow. ”

- Unknown

“ A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties. ”

- Unknown

“ If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels. ”

- Frank Sinatra

“ No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature. ”

- A.A. Milne

“ At the Cole School, where they had community singing every morning the teacher noticed that Jack London remained silent. She asked him why. He replied that she didn't know how to sing, that she would spoil his voice because she flatted. The teacher dispatched him to the principal to be punished… ”

- Irving Stone

“ I think people are shocked when I do other characters. Right now I'm doing a little workshop play in New York and at the Groundlings and I play a completely other character - I think they are shocked when I'm not Jack. Slowly people are seeing outside of the box and realizing that I became an actor to play other roles and not just one role for the rest of my life… ”

- Sean Hayes

“ Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's Jack Daniel's. Ask them which they prefer. They'll think the two drinks are quite different. They are tasting images. ”

- David Ogilvy
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