Oliver St. John Quotes

If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

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• I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Better
  • Persons

• I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's right. I don't think that's appropriate. But freedom of religion doesn't mean freedom from religion. And I think that anything we can do to promote the idea that people should express their faith is a good thing.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Good
  • Country

• I think twerking is overrated.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Overrated

• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager

• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Think

• You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • People
  • Science
  • Color

• Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • World
  • School
  • Faith

• People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Years
  • Whatever
  • Backstreet

• In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Embrace
  • U.S.

• The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Time
  • World
  • Money

• I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• If, in the schools, the classical language would no longer be taught, whom could we entrust with the writing of memorials, documents, letters and notes in the public service? How could we possibly assign important offices and heavy responsibilities to someone who cannot even write fluently?

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Language

• I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Live
  • Night

• 'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • You
  • Shadow
  • Border

• There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards... We're dorks being silly up there.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Silly

• Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Act
  • Libertarian
  • Patriot

• I know how demanding the process of creation is.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Know
  • Process
  • Creation

• Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God

• For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Wonder
  • Vision
  • Human Eye

• Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • House
  • Mirror
  • Remove

• I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Temptation
  • Flow
  • Resolve

• If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?

  

  Oliver St. John
  • Queen
  • Flow
  • Bee