Joe Orton Quotes

Prentice: It's ridiculous. I'm a married man.Match: Marriage excuses no one the freaks' roll-call.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Jesus
  • Justice
  • Poverty

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Wisdom
  • Performance
  • Measure

• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • Difficult
  • Lord

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The Arab Spring, nobody's in the streets demonstrating for radical Islam; they're in the streets with a window of democracy. They want our political reform, our social justice, and our economic opportunity.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Political
  • Opportunity
  • Justice

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Future
  • Pressure
  • Olympics

• A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Good
  • Understand

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Used
  • Prosperity
  • Instrument

• Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Never
  • Advice

• Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Help
  • Always
  • Yourself

• My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Going

• Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Hope
  • Die
  • Before

• I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Family
  • Marriage
  • Married

• I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to the rearing, nurturing, and teaching of children.

  

  David A. Bednar
  • Children
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Good
  • Children
  • Home

• Prentice: It's ridiculous. I'm a married man.Match: Marriage excuses no one the freaks' roll-call.

  

  Joe Orton
  • Marriage
  • Excuses