John Churton Collins Quotes

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

John Churton Collins

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• I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Crazy
  • Execution

• I hate jeans for no reason.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Hate
  • Reason
  • Jeans

• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Sometimes
  • Name
  • White

• Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Think
  • Working
  • Now

• Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Attention

• My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Perfect
  • Thought
  • Better

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • You
  • Miss
  • Grades

• When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Control
  • Single
  • Best

• The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Strong
  • Language
  • Beauty

• I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • World
  • Work
  • Want

• Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Model
  • Role
  • Opposite

• By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Beautiful
  • Strong
  • Woman

• From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Media

• The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  

  Walter Elliot
  • Silence
  • Desert
  • Crowd

• I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Me
  • Like
  • More

• A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.

  

  O. Henry
  • Moral

• The way that actors talk about acting is generally quite punishing, and I think actors want to put forward the idea that they do all of this work because, you know, it's a post-De Niro world, when, largely, in fact, it's almost never true.

  

  Ben Mendelsohn
  • World
  • Work
  • True

• I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

  

  Buck Leonard
  • Time
  • Bitter

• Do not trust people who call themselves musicians or record collectors who say that they don’t like Bob Dylan or the Beatles. They do not love music if those words come out of their mouths.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Trust
  • Musicians
  • Beatles

• Those who by form did see me and those who followed me by voice. Wrong the efforts they engaged in, those people will not see me.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • People
  • Voice
  • Efforts

• If you have a dog, and you're a person whose moods are constantly changing, there's a moment when you look at the dog, and you feel bad for them because they're attached to you, and so it's funny for the dog to vocalize those things in some ways.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Dog

• Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

  

  John Churton Collins