Jane Wagner Quotations

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

My mom says I have to be more positive, and I say life has to be more positive too or it's just not going to work.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

Of all the things we've learned, we still haven't learned where did this desire to want to know come from?

Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas.

... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.

I have gained and lost the same 10 pounds so many times over and over again my cellulite must have deja vu!

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

Sex is such a personal thing - why do we insist on sharing it with another person?

If evolution was worth its salt, by now it should've evolved something better than survival of the fittest. I think a better idea would be survival of the wittiest.

Like what's the point being a health nut by day if you're a coke head at night.

When I first came into this world, Elvis was already fat.

It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense.

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Reality is just a collective hunch.

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

What is reality anyway! It's nothing but a collective hunch.

The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.

Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.

It's not that I lack ambition. I am ambitious in the sense that I want to be more than I am now. But if I were truly ambitious, I think I'd already be more than I am now.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

I am sick of being the victim of trends I reflect but don't even understand.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

Never underestimate the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person's life. For better or worse. God puts us all in each other's lives to impact one another in some way.

Just think: your family are the people most likely to give you the flu.

When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading.

I worry that drugs have forced us to be more creative than we really are.

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

Ahhhhhhhh. There is nothing natural about natural childbirth. It is as close to a freak accident as anything I can think of. Why I picked a time like this to go off drugs?

Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.

Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.

To me the term "sexual feedom" meant freedom from having sex.

Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.

One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.

You don't know what it's like! Hyperactive twins! When they turned three, my doctor prescribed Ritalin -- I wouldn't dream of giving a drug to my children, but it does help when I take it myself.

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do--I had to let something go.

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

People don't need sex so much as they need to be listened to.

If olive oil comes from olives, then where does baby oil come from?

Now we are celebrating all generations at this event. There is something for everyone. You don't need to have kids to come to this.

I guess I can't say anything other than tremendous.

Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.

To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

Language because of our deep inner need to complain....

We speculated what it was like before we got language skills. When we humans had our first thought, most likely we didnt know what to think. Its hard to think without words cause you havent got a clue as to what youre thinking. So if you think we suffer from a lack of communication now, think what it must have been like then, when people lived in a verbal void - made worse by the fact that there were no words such as verbal void.

It's helping students learn what's required to be successful in human services careers.

They asked me once my thoughts about infinity, and I told em with all I had to think about, infinity was not on my list of things to think about. It could be time on an ego-trip, for all I know. After all, when youre pressed for time, infinity may as well not be there.

The idea is for students to learn about the human milestones from birth to the aging.