John Cassavetes Quotes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

John Cassavetes

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Together
  • You
  • Woods

• The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Children
  • Humanity
  • Service

• Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • World
  • Power
  • Today

• I'd rather be a lady of the evening than a feminist.

  

  Wendy E. Long
  • Feminist
  • Lady
  • Rather

• Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • City
  • Doing
  • Now And Then

• The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Alone

• Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Human
  • Information

• About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Language
  • Impossible
  • Try

• nisi impunitatis cupido retinuisset, magnis semper conatibus adversa.

  

  Tacitus

• People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organizations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • People

• Naturally. I like to see General Motors stock register a good price on the market, but that is just a matter of pride... What has counted with me is the true value of the property as a business return on investment.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Good
  • Business
  • True

• While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven,Calming the lightning which he thence hath riven,Or drawing from the no less kindled earthFreedom and peace to that which boasts his birth;While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'erShall sink while there's an echo left to air.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Peace
  • Heaven
  • Air

• Of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently - though as little of one as possible. For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Work
  • Society

• Now this word SABAF, being by number Three score and Ten, is a name of Ayin, the Eye, and the Devil our Lord, and the Goat of Mendes. He is the Lord of the Sabbath of the Adepts, and is Satan, therefore also the Sun, whose number of Magick is 666, the seal of His servant the BEAST.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Sun
  • Devil
  • Satan

• Restaurants and chefs have become followed by such a broad swath of the public, in a way that used to be reserved for sports stars, movie stars, and theater actors. Restaurants are in the firmament of today's common culture.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Movie
  • Today
  • Culture

• Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.

  

  Ken Auletta
  • People

• I missed New York. Every break I had from the series, I'd fly back to the East Coast just to get back onstage.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Fly
  • New
  • New York

• I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Annoying

• 'Tis a grievous thing to be subject to an inferior.

  

  Democritus

• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Together
  • House

• The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

  

  John Cassavetes