Jerk Quote by William Safire Download Open image “Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.” — William Safire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Jerk Knees
A bloke once yelled out: 'You've got chubby knees.' I was 19. I've had a real complex about my knees ever since. — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight. — William Safire Copy Share Image
What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia… — William Safire Copy Share Image
This is what it's all about. From what I could see, you could get a bunch of people together, whip up the press and… — William Safire Copy Share Image
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary. — William Safire Copy Share Image
A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be… — William Safire Copy Share Image
The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that… — William Safire Copy Share Image
A jerk will keep hurting you then apologize to keep you from leaving them, and then do it all over again — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
The word relationship best refers to the connection between parasite and host, or shark and remora. It's a biological term. I'd rather be a… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
If you're working on better conditions for prisoners, if you make that a popular issue and you invite mainstream media to weigh in on that subject, you're going to end up with a much more regressive public-policy environment than if you approach it in a quieter way. It's not because the public is stupid, it's just that people with only… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share
Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts. — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks. — John Waters Copy Share Image
If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk. — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
I have tons of tunes, maybe 30 tunes that I still think are great, and only because some jerk at a record company didn't… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
What's success anyway? Is success about making the most money? No, money for the most part turns people into jerks. — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two… — George Eads Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share
