John Carpenter Quotes

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• On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Space

• My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

  

  Ted Ligety
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Passion

• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • May
  • Road
  • Wait

• The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Money
  • You
  • Find

• When I used to perform weddings, the image I always had was the image of a triangle, in which there are two partners and then there is this third force, this third being, that emerges out of the interaction of these two. The third one is the one that is the shared awareness that lies behind the two of them.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Always
  • Lies
  • Awareness

• My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Mother
  • Always
  • Couple

• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

  Lara Logan
  • Life
  • Bad
  • About

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Long
  • Think
  • Feet

• My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

  

  Iman
  • Faith
  • Daughter
  • Flower

• I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Good
  • Me
  • Drink

• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Boring
  • Elections

• I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Big
  • Fast
  • Circles

• If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Books
  • Thing
  • Bookstore

• Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Country
  • Goal

• I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'

  

  Kate Mara
  • She
  • Remember
  • Want

• If it’s anything that’s going to result in suffering to animals or people, then I don’t think the end justifies the means. … Yeah; but then again if you could hurt ten people to save 100 people and there was no option, what would you do? I can’t really address that.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Hurt

• You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Today
  • Thoughts

• Now, of course, cold fusion is the daddy of them all in a way, in terms of value, so I think that viewed in a social way, from the point of social considerations and economics, it will tell you that this thing will stay around.

  

  Martin Fleischmann
  • Value
  • Cold

• The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Justice
  • Weakness
  • Sympathy

• Education is a human right - a recognition of dignity that each person should be afforded.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Education

• I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

  

  John Carpenter