Dean Jones Quotes

I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record.

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Words

• Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Idea
  • First
  • New

• Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Time
  • First
  • Apple

• For mascara, I'll just use whatever I have in my bag. I'll use anything. I feel like, from drugstores to a Saks, they are all the same to me.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Use

• The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • High
  • Quality
  • Ability

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

  

  Randy Moss
  • Life
  • Family
  • Daughter

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • World
  • Live
  • Words

• Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Long
  • Honor
  • Where

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • American
  • Career
  • Woman

• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Light
  • Broken
  • Habit

• Sarcasm helps me overcome the harshness of the reality we live, eases the pain of scars and makes people smile.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Live
  • Reality

• I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.

  

  Lesley Manville
  • Up
  • School
  • Career

• My position does not give me the liberty to exclude anything, but my mood tells me there will not be violence.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Violence
  • Liberty
  • Mood

• One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Great
  • Book
  • Slavery

• You can throw a novel into focus with one overheard line.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Focus

• If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.

  

  Jason David Frank
  • Great
  • Live
  • Future

• I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I'd just do until I had a hit record.

  

  Dean Jones
  • Career
  • Wish