“It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.” IfsWantWantedGuyDealsDrinkBedEach DayThis GuyMorbidShaving Author:Paul McCartney
“I can't believe some of the things I did.Can't believe it. Sayin' I was the greatest and the beautifulist and I was gonna whup this guy and that guy, sayin' I'm pretty, I can't be beat.” BelieveI CanGuyBeatsThis GuyThat Guy Author:Muhammad Ali
“I'm always very nervous about the word 'dancer' next to my name because anyone who's really trained in dance will go, 'This guy's fudging so badly.'” InspirationalGuyNextNamesDanceNervousDancerThis Guy Author:Hugh Jackman
“I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'” YearsSaidGuyTalkingShameDown AndConservativeSatWowThis GuyCivility Author:David Mamet
“I want to see riots! I want to see the kind of riots where cab drivers are afraid to pick up white people! I want to see this guy!” PeopleWantKindGuyWhitePicksDriversThis GuyRiotCabCab Drivers Author:Bill Maher
“I have a friend who's collecting unemployment insurance. This guy has never worked so hard in his life as he has to keep this thing going. He's down there every week, waiting on the lines and getting interviewed and making up all these lies about looking for jobs. If they had any idea of the effort and energy that he is expending to avoid work, I'm sure they'd give him a raise.” IfsGivingIdeasHardJobsLyingGuyEnergyWaitingLinesEffortWeekRaisesUnemploymentThis GuyCollectingMaking UpLooking For A Job Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“I don't think I ever wrote a song. I can write a lot of jokes, but when I try to write lyrics they're the most direct, non-figurative words, like, 'I like you, I like you,'... and that's it, for the whole song. People would go, 'Ooh, this guy's Dylan or something.' It gives me a lot more respect for songwriters, actually.” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingTryingI CanWholeGuySongLike YouJokesDirectGive MeSongwritersThis GuyDylanI Like You Author:Demetri Martin
“Everywhere you turn, you see me in a movie, and I'm sorry. At this point, people must be saying, 'God, Biggs again? Can't we get away from this guy?'” PeopleGuyTurnsSorryGet AwayI'm SorryThis Guy Author:Jason Biggs
“I think my first impression (of Bix Beiderbecke) was the lasting one. I remember very clearly thinking, 'Where, what planet, did this guy come from? Is he from outer space?' I'd never heard anything like the way he played-not in Chicago, no place. The tone-he had this wonderful, ringing cornet tone. He could have played in a symphony orchestra with that tone. But also the intervals he played, the figures-whatever the hell he did. There was a refinement about his playing. You know, in those days I played a little trumpet, and I could play all the solos from his records, by heart.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsHeartLittlesPlayRememberGuySpaceHellRecordsWonderfulHeardFiguresPlanetsImpressionToneLastingChicagoSoloThis GuyOrchestraSymphonyTrumpetsIntervalsRefinementOuter SpaceFirst ImpressionSymphony Orchestras Author:Benny Goodman
“I tried to do everything I could to study Walt Disney. I would read every book I could on the company, and then I found out more about him as a person, as an entrepreneur, and it was just fascinating to me that this guy was able to live a great life with his family but also do these amazing things at work.” PersonsBookAbleGuyFoundCompanyStudyEntrepreneurFascinatingThis GuyAmazing ThingsWalt Author:Jason Kilar
“I've met foreign leaders who can't go out and say this publicly, but boy, they look at you and say, you've got to win this, you've got to beat this guy, we need a new policy, things like that.” NeedsLooksGuyWinningLeaderBoysPolicyMetsBeatsThis Guy Author:John F. Kerry
“The [Hillary] Clinton campaign posted a pretty clever online quiz that makes a similar point with the Republican presidential field. Who said it? Donald Trump or not Donald Trump? For example, quote, "I mean you can prove you are a Christian. You can`t prove it, then you err on the side of caution." That was not Donald Trump. It was this guy, who strongly denounced Trump`s proposed Muslim ban but supports a religious test for refugees.” MeanSaidChristianGuySidesReligiousSupportExampleFieldsTrumpRepublicanProveTestsClintonCampaignsCleverPresidentialOnlineRefugeeThis GuyCautionBansProve ItQuiz Author:Chris Hayes
“The most telling one was recently on a plane. This guy very dressed up and formal - the watch, the shoes, the cufflinks, the whole nine yards - he came at me, and I thought I was going to get nailed. But he literally came up to me and just gave me a hug and said, "Thank you for introducing me to a subject that I didn't know anything about." In those moments it always clicks for me what we're doing here.” KnowsSaidWholeMomentsGuyWatchesSubjectsShoesNinePlanesIntroducingHugFormalYardsThis GuyClicksDressed Up Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“When I was writing the script I thought he is this guy. I really hoped...I kept imagining him as that guy. And then he came in to audition and I was really nervous because I really wanted him to do Greek, you know? And he...I didn't know who else I could cast. And he was amazing in the audition. Really funny.” KnowsWritingWantedGuyScriptsCastsNervousGreekAuditionsThis GuyThat Guy Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Does everybody have their WWJD bracelets on? 'Cause I was wearing my bracelet recently, and I was in the movie theater, and this guy's cell phone went off - don't you just hate that? Then he picked it up, 'Hey, how's it going? I'm in a movie.' And I'm like, 'Hey! Get off the phone!' And he's like, 'Mind your own business.' And I almost went crazy, but then I looked at my bracelet: what would Jesus do? So I lit him on fire and sent him to Hell.” MindDoeGuyReligionHateJesusCausesHellFireCrazyTheaterPhonesHeyCellsLitThis GuyCell PhoneOwn BusinessMind Your Own BusinessMovie TheaterBraceletMind Your Own Author:Daniel Tosh
“My mom had this inate ability. Whatever town my mother moved to, the second she walked into town, she would instantly attract the alpha loser of that town. This guy was not a good guy. This guy was half O.J. Simpson and half O.J. Simpson. Scott Peterson sprinkles on the top, a side of Robert Blake. You know, not a good guy.” KnowsMotherGuySidesAbilityHalfMomTownsMovedMy MomLoserThis GuyGood GuyBlakeAlphasSprinkles Author:Christopher Titus
“Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don't ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like 'this guy is ready to party.'” GuyPartyReadyThreatShirtsOffensiveThis GuyHawaiians Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I was in a real conservative area just outside of Chicago recently. And this guy's like, 'Hey, Arj, you're from San Francisco. Are you in favor of gay marriage?' I was like, 'Well, I'd like to get to know you a little bit better first. I don't know what ever happened to buying a guy a smoothie and seeing what happens. That's how we do it back home.” KnowsFirstsWellsLittlesRealHomeHappensGuyBitsSeeingHappenedGayLittle BitAreasConservativeFavorsHeyBuyingChicagoThis GuySan FranciscoGay MarriageBack HomeSmoothies Author:Arj Barker
“I was driving in Manhattan. There's traffic, nobody's moving... The guy behind me is honking just at me. He kept yelling at me. I decided that I'm gonna argue with this guy, but I'm gonna argue about something else. I'm not having his argument; I'm having mine. So, he's like, 'Go!' And I go, 'Well give me back my jacket!' And he stopped. I was like, 'Yeah, you got my jacket! Give it back! I said you could borrow it, not have it! You're stretching it out, you fat pig! Give it back, now!' He got back in his car, and he locked his doors.” GivingWellsSaidMovingGuyBehindsDoorsCarMinesArgumentDecidedGive MeYeahArguingDrivingFatsLockedPigsTrafficThis GuyJacketsManhattanStretchingYellingHonking Author:Louis C. K.
“I couldn't find any good pictures in magazines of ordinary modern street corners in America, so I persuaded this guy I knew in Sacramento - Stanley Something-or-other - to spend a day with me driving around just to take snapshots.” AmericaGuyStreetsModernOrdinaryCornersDrivingMagazinesThis GuyStanleySnapshotsStreet CornersSacramento Author:Robert Crumb
“It was right after 9/11 and I decided to walk around the grounds of the Pentagon, because I had never been there. Out of nowhere comes this speeding camouflaged golf cart and this guy starts yelling at me, 'What do you think you're doing!' The guy wrote my name down and began to follow me before I got really scared and took off as fast as I could.” ThinkingGuyNamesWalksDecidedDown AndGolfScaredThis GuyYellingFollow MeCartsPentagonSpeedingGolf Carts Author:Bill Burr
“The very first big photo shoot I ever did was with Bruce Weber. I couldn't believe this guy was taking my picture, so when he told me to get in the bathtub, I just did. It's only now, looking back, that I realise, you don't have to do everything people tell you.” PeopleFirstsBelieveBigsGuyRealisingLooking BackThis GuyPhoto ShootsBathtubsWeber Author:Matt Damon
“WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.” KnowsGuyFameRoseHallsWrestlingWweThis GuyHall Of Fame Author:Mr. T
“Kurt Cobain, when he did his videos, you look into his eyes and he couldn't even face the camera; he was in pain and I'm angry about Kurt. This guy didn't have to die.” LooksEyePainFacesGuyDiesCamerasAngryVideoHis EyesThis GuyCobain Author:Steven Tyler
“But I did mine through a production company. All the music I did, I gave to the production company. Then the production company would give the record company the album. I used to do all my albums like that. It was fantastic. But now, understand, I have never planned to do anything with these other tapes. The one that are released, like the Virgin Ubiquity you have there, I wasn't going to do anything with that music. One day, I was talking to this guy that owns BBE over in England, and I said I've got some tapes and stuff that you might be interested in, and he went berserk.” GivingSaidMightUsedGuyStuffCompanyTalkingRecordsMinesOne DayEnglandAlbumsProductionsFantasticTapeVirginsThis GuyRecord CompaniesBerserkUbiquity Author:Roy Ayers
“The word love carries the same vibration in any language. You probably know this guy, you probably had dinner with him yesterday. The Japanese water crystal guy?” KnowsGuyLanguageWaterDinnerYesterdayCarrieThis GuyCrystalsVibrationsWords Love Author:Ian Somerhalder
“The bin Laden I met each time was in a simple Saudi white robe, with a simple, cheap kafiya and very cheap plastic sandals. But a videotape released before September 11, which I saw on Lebanese television, had him in a gold embroidered robe. When I saw this, I thought, whoa, has this guy changed? I wouldn't have imagined him ever appearing in such golden robes when I met him.” GuySimpleWhiteSawsChangedTelevisionMetsGoldGoldenPlasticSeptemberThis GuyBin LadenSeptember 11AppearingSaudisRobesSandalsLebanese Author:Robert Fisk
“It's very frustrating if you've never had an experience and somebody comes up to you and says, "I've just been on a flying saucer." Your tendency is to think, "Oh, this guy must be wacko, nuts, having an hallucination. None of that can be true because none of that has ever happened to me."” IfsThinkingGuyHappenedCome UpFlyingTendenciesBeing TrueNutsThis GuyFrustratingUp To YouHallucinationsFlying Saucers Author:Fred Alan Wolf
“There was definitely a pecking order, and when Stallone walked in, we were like, "All hail!" He came in with his big forearms, pointing and telling everybody where he wanted the cameras with his big cigar ablazing, and you just go, "This is Stallone!" with admiration, because none of us would be here without this guy. That's the thing, he changed movies forever” BigsWould BeWantedGuyOrderForeverChangedCamerasAdmirationThis GuyPointingCigarHailPecking Order Author:Terry Crews
“Usually when fans find out about my music for the first time, they're like "Oh this guy's actually for real!" And it's just like yea, you found Waldo.” FirstsRealGuyFoundFansFirst TimeThis Guy Author:SonReal
“Everybody recommended me to Sinatra and Don Costa, because everybody was enjoying my music. I got a big following going on. Nino (Tempo) told Don Costa "you gotta come see this guy." And that's how Don Costa heard about me, through Nino Tempo. Then, Don Costa brought me to the attention of Frank Sinatra and Reprise Records.” BigsGuyEnjoyAttentionRecordsHeardFollowingFrankThis GuyTempo Author:Trini Lopez
“Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.” PersonsHandsRememberGuyNiceMetsTreatsBlowPleasantThis Guy Author:Kevin Hart
“I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy is out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a 'socialist' taking over the country. Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man can be can suddenly change our entire system? That's kind of absurd.” PeopleThinkingMenWantYearsKindPersonsCountryGuyThreeLostProgressRepublicanOfficeClaimsAbsurdOne ManThree YearsSocialistThis GuyCaution Author:Colin Powell
“You folks like TV, you watch a lot of TV? There's a show right here on CBS, it's a huge hit. It's called the "Mentalist." And it's about this guy who has a heightened sense of observation. It's miraculous; he's the only guy in the world who can tell the difference between Sarah Palin and Tina Fey.” WorldShowsGuyDifferencesWatchesTvsHugeFolksObservationThis GuyMiraculousPalinFey Author:David Letterman
“The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of his missiles seem to launch.” SeemsGuyRaisesSellingFakeReportsDictatorGlobesThis GuyPillsNorth KoreaMissilesKoreanKimNorth KoreanViagra Author:Jay Leno
“Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?” PeopleFeelsTryingKindPersonsJobsGuyRolesComedyDramaWeightThis GuyVolley Author:Greg Kinnear
“Steve Wozniak literally one of the sweetest guys. And that was kind of the thing I had to reconcile: how do I try to do this guy's sweetness justice in some capacity when most of the things I'm doing in the movie are pretty confrontational, and pretty argumentative.” TryingKindGuyJusticeCapacitySweetnessThis GuySweetestReconcile Author:Seth Rogen
“Google the phrase "the most hated man in America." And this guy is one of the first people to pop up. Martin Shkreli, aka Pharma Bro, a 32-year-old drug company entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager who has a lot of money and loves to talk about how he spends it.” PeopleMenYearsFirstsAmericaGuyCompanyDrugAnd LoveEntrepreneurPopsFormerManagersHatedPhrasesFundLots Of MoneyGoogleThis GuyBrosHedge FundLove And MoneyDrug CompaniesAka Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“There's something with actors in their 40s, I don't know - there's this tendency with these guys, either they're not where they wanted to be, or - I mean, this guy was making good money and working a lot. It's almost like they have a bad conscience about the job, like it's unmanly or something, so they try to compensate by busting the director's balls 24/7.” KnowsTryingMeanWantedJobsGuyActorsDirectorsConscienceBallsTendenciesThis GuyGood MoneyBustingWorking A Lot Author:Kurt Voss
“I never, ever update Mark Twain. I don't modernize it. I let the audience update the material. When I go out on stage, I'm trying to make the audience believe they're looking at this guy who died 104 years ago and listening to him and saying to themselves, "Jesus, he could be talking about today." And that's the point.” TryingYearsBelieveTodayGuyJesusTalkingAudienceStageMaterialsListeningYears AgoMarkDiedThis GuyUpdates Author:Hal Holbrook
“The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot DÃaz's Drown, I was like, Oh my god, you can write these stories and people will actually read them beyond your own little community. This guy's book is blowing up and it seems like [he's writing about] the neighborhood that I grew up in. That was a big deal. I read that in graduate school, so that's when I was really taking writing seriously, but I didn't know you could do it. I didn't know you can actually be an author. It was a weird epiphany.” PeopleKnowsWritingLittlesBookStoriesBigsSeemsSchoolGuyCommunityDealsGrewGrew UpNeighborhoodGraduatesThis GuyBig DealStandpointEpiphanyGraduate SchoolBlowing Up Author:Matt de la Pena
“I really became a hardcore Batman fan when I was eight years old. What was clear to me, the reason I liked him better than Superman or Spider-Man or the Hulk or whoever, was the fact that he was human, and I could identify with him, and I really believed in that character strongly. In my heart of hearts, when I was eight years old, I believed that if I studied real hard, and worked out real hard, and if my dad bought me a cool car, I could be this guy.” IfsMenYearsHumansHeartRealHardReasonCharacterFactsGuyClearFansCarDadMy HeartMy DadEightThis GuySpidersHardcoreSpider ManCool Cars Author:Michael Uslan
“There are a lot of sources of information out there, so why don't you curate for yourself a list, like a real timeline of information, like the New York Times, or JetBlue, or your friends, or this comedian, or this guy who pretends to be a cat, or whatever it is, whatever entertains you, whatever you find useful.” RealGuyInformationNew YorkSourceCatListsComedianThis GuyNew York TimesTimelines Author:Biz Stone
“People got extremely comfortable with being able to turn on their television and see MTV say, "This guy's hot you should buy this record."” PeopleShouldAbleGuyTurnsRecordsTelevisionComfortableHotThis GuyTurn-onMtv Author:David Bowie
“I think the second, or outsider's, perspective can come as you layer a story. It's as though you've grabbed a secondary character and asked them, "What do you make of this guy?" and the hope is that the answer surprises you as the writer.” ThinkingCharacterStoriesGuyAnswersPerspectiveSurpriseLayersOutsidersThis Guy Author:Tom Barbash
“There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good at escaping, but he gets caught all the time, because he can't stop writing his name on underpasses where he's running from the law. And there's this whole beautiful paragraph about how to run is to write. And, you know, it's obviously about the writer's life.” KnowsWritingWholeStoriesRunningBeautifulLawGuyNamesTypePrisonNotesCaughtThis GuyEscapingParagraphCarlson Author:Pam Houston
“People think, "Wow, people in America have so much money, they're sending hundreds of pencils to this guy." I don't think those people realize that most people who are buying these pencils are buying them as art objects or conversation pieces.” PeopleThinkingArtAmericaGuyRealizingPiecesObjectsConversationBuyingWowPencilsThis Guy Author:David Rees
“So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of person who would skin someone alive. But the story behind it was that there was this guy who was a really great musician, and all the women loved him, and people started saying he was the best musician in the world, so Apollo got jealous and he challenged this guy to a musical dual. They would each play a song and the muses would judge who was the better musician.” PeopleThinkingWorldPersonsPlayStoriesGuySongBehindsAliveJudgingMusicianSkinsMusicalJealousMuseReally GreatThis GuyApolloGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Larkin Grimm
“When I was working at Omega, I took this Zen retreat, where you're quiet, you don't say anything for a week, and this guy there said, "You're going to be enlightened at the end of this week, that's my goal." I was the engineer, so I was recording everything at it was happening, but I was also participating, because I felt like it. So at the end of it, I did understand what enlightenment was, one-hundred percent.” SaidEndsGuyFeltGoalWeekQuietHappeningsEnlightenmentPercentHundredEnlightenedEngineersSay AnythingRetreatThis GuyParticipating Author:Larkin Grimm
“Someone wrote to me asking me to illustrate a missed connection that "hasn't happened yet." This guy has seen the same girl waiting at a bus stop on his morning commute for weeks, and has been trying to find a way to approach her. He thought it would be fun to put up a Missed Connections poster [of my painting] on the corner where she waits and see what happens. It is kind of an intriguing idea but there's something a bit too manipulative about it for my liking. It's a fine line between being creative and stalking!” WayTryingKindHas BeensIdeasHappensWould BeGuyGirlFunBitsWaitingLinesMorningCreativeHappenedWeekPaintingFineApproachConnectionsAskingCornersBusBe CreativeThis GuyIntriguingPostersStalkingFine LinesManipulativeBus StopsMissed Connections Author:Sophie Blackall