Jeff Gannon Quotes

Unintended Consequences is full of substance, it is one of the must-read books of the year, and once I finish it I will be giving it a second read through right away.

I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

And as the years flowed by, some villagers told travelers of a beast and a beauty who lived in the castle and could be seen walking on the battlements, and others told of two beauties, and others, of two beasts.

Some good souls found The Candidate cynical. I wonder what they'll think when they read this portrait of the real-life Jerry Brown... This is the book that could force the little fox into the open.

Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude

I have examined all religions, as well as my narrow sphere, my straightened means, and my busy life, would allow; and the result is that the Bible is the best Book in the world. It contains more philosophy than all the libraries I have seen.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

The White House has announced that they no longer recognize Fox as a news organization, which puts them about eight years behind the rest of us.

It's ridiculous that people call me a sex symbol. I don't feel like that at all. My daughter would get a kick out of it - she'd find it very funny. I'll take it though. I'm very humble. But it's certainly not the way I feel.

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that's an endorsement.

You'd think when you saw my old MTV stuff that I was always drunk and high and all that stuff. I wasn't.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

If you hold a beautiful flower in your hand, you can write a whole book about it. However, you are still just you perceiving and experiencing it from your own point of view.

fame is merely the fact of being misunderstood by millions of people.

Having written Camp David as a drama, I could see the drama maybe a little more clearly when I wrote the book.

Just because someone acts a certain way on TV, that doesn't mean he's like that in real life.

People assume that I'm very highly trained, that I studied and did years and years of Shakespeare. I have no training whatsoever and I've only done one Shakespeare play at university. If people want to believe that, I'm happy to go along with it.

Well, it's my age group, anywhere from, I'd say 30 to 70. The biggest comment I get about the book is how honest it is and that people can relate to my circumstances going across the line. Anybody could learn and deal with this book from reading it.

People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream.

What can you do. You get a name, you're called 'Thomas Bernhard', and it stays that way for the rest of your life. And if at some point you go for a walk in the woods, and someone takes a photo of you, then for the next eighty years you're always walking in the woods. There's nothing you can do about it.

People say Yogi (Berra) is a strange guy, and I've heard Yogi say some funny things. But he has a beautiful wife, he's rich, and he's famous. I don't see anything strange about that.

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.