I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I … - Jules Feiffer

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.

Jules Feiffer

I didn't have a job. Employers were afraid of losing their reputations. I didn't have a reputation. I had zilch. So, I had the freedom, which unemployment gives you, and that was to behave as badly as I believed I should under the circumstances. And the circumstances were quite awful.

Believed, Giving, Job, Losing, Quite, Reputation

Same Author Quotes

I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active, constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia. Turns out I'm normal.

Anxiety, Doctors, Fits, Normal, Turns

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Art, Blue, Stupid, Think, Thinking

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

Chaos, Design, Hard, Important

You know with Obama being elected, we had a wonderful opportunity. I hope it's not blown, and we have forms of government that don't seem to be up to the level of the leaders who are around who will want to move this country in a proper direction. Where that goes and how that goes, I mean, we seem determined to not move ahead, to stay in the same place. And there are a lot of nuts out there as well.

Country, Leaders, Mean, Moving, Proper

Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.

Advice, Crush, Follow, Good, Patterns, Sane