John Hodgman Quotes
Top 77 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Hodgman
John Hodgman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.
I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.
When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.
Maine's motto is "Vacationland," but as far as I'm concerned, it should be, "Maine: Putting the 'spite' in hospitality since 1820."
I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.
Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.
Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.
Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.
I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.
So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.
I made an impulse buy of a house in Maine to make my wife happy and now have gone back into debt and it's all started over for me.
A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.
There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.
I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.
So I am a product of the Internet, and to some degree a product of this sensibility of constant cultural reference.
A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.
Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.
A lot of media that that I want to consume, I don't want to have to own forever and ever. It's not like real estate.
It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.
Terry Gross has never had me on her show and you know, it's her show; she sets the agenda and that's not Hodgman. But I'll still listen to it.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
My memories of literary agenting are of a very happy time and there are surprising reminders of it coming back now.
I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me."
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
To want to become the President is, I think, such a bizarre ambition that it is automatically deranging.
Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.
I suspect that when the truth ceases to be heartbreakingly funny, we will be in a better place and a happier society over all.
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
I am someone who values knowledge, actual knowledge. I also value stories and fiction a whole lot, and that's where the fake knowledge comes in.
I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!