John Bytheway Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
-
When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
-
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
-
I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
-
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
-
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.
-
The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
-
Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
-
I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
-
Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing on having more good starts than bad starts, and I traditionally do. But I would hate to make it all the way to the Olympics and have a bad starting day.
-
We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
-
I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
-
The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
-
Writers, actors, anybody working on an ensemble-type thing, there are going to be some creaks in the beginning. It seems like there's tremendous potential in just letting things sort of breathe a little bit. It's tremendously important.
-
Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
-
What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
-
Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
-
Seek the seeker.
-
Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different
-
Eric Bryant and Ethan Berlin, the creators of 'Bunk,' asked me to come get involved in very early process when they wanted to make a game show.
-
I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.
-
Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.
-
This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
-
Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.
