John Buchan Quotes

Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

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• Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Bad

• Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Experience
  • Success

• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Children
  • Ideas

• Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • Me
  • Sometimes
  • Find

• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Universe

• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Color
  • Bold
  • Pink

• It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Pretty
  • Reality
  • Place

• I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Travel

• I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Love
  • Power
  • City

• If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Up
  • Know
  • Wind

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• While most philanthropists tend to flock together and build their teams around friends, family, or others who happen to be retired or with a lot of free time on their hands, a great entrepreneur knows that success is directly related to the quality and talents of their team.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Great
  • Family

• There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Children
  • Past

• Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Mind
  • Focus
  • Positive

• I don't read the critics.

  

  Olivier Dahan
  • Read
  • Critics

• I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Love
  • Hero
  • Strength

• I see the people in Detroit are very - they're like a lot of cities, but they're very proud to be from there and they really want to see change and they really want to see good things happen.

  

  Robert James Ritchi
  • People
  • Good
  • Proud

• He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

  

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

• You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Trying

• For decades, many blacks were reluctant to pursue a profession that was associated with servitude. If you went to school, it was to become a lawyer or doctor. Older generations didn't understand why one would spend money to learn how to chop, peel, dice, and saute vegetables when that trade could be taught at home.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • School
  • Money
  • Why

• The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Period

• Without humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation.

  

  John Buchan
  • Alone