John Byrne Quotes

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

John Byrne

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• I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Business
  • City
  • Universe

• Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Use
  • Intelligence
  • Guidance

• Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Health
  • Decisions
  • Insurance

• I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Know
  • Play
  • Golf

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Since I was 19, I've always gone where there was a reason to be. Maybe I'll be lucky and there'll be a reason to go somewhere tropical for a while.

  

  Feist
  • Reason
  • Always
  • Lucky

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Place

• Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Intelligent
  • Very
  • Pigs

• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Time
  • Great
  • Society

• To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Good
  • Important
  • Struggle

• When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Up
  • You
  • Buying

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Team
  • Forget
  • Clever

• I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Christian

• I'm much more shy than most of my family.

  

  Talia Balsam
  • Family
  • Most
  • Shy

• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Experience
  • City
  • Model

• The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Today

• I would like to be an FBI profiler. I'm fascinated with psychology, but I wouldn't want to deal with people and their problems in my office. I like to figure them out from afar, narrow a case down, figure it out, but it sounds like a lot of science.

  

  Kathleen Madigan
  • Science
  • Problems
  • Psychology

• There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

  

  Karen Black
  • End
  • Gold
  • Rainbow

• Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Mom

• The cinema is not a craft. It is an art. It does not mean teamwork. One is always alone on the set as before the blank page. And to be alone... means to ask questions. And to make films means to answer them.

  

  Jean-Luc Godard
  • Art
  • Alone
  • Teamwork

• I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

  

  John Byrne
  • Bad
  • Dream
  • Reality