John Cleese Quotes

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

John Cleese

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• When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Same
  • Walk

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Live
  • Family
  • Looking

• In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • People
  • American
  • House

• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Love
  • Result
  • Judged

• In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Think
  • Worry
  • Disasters

• My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Dad
  • Never
  • Vinyl

• Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Business
  • Democracy
  • Politics

• The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.

  

  Pancho Gonzales
  • Great
  • Man
  • Hate

• You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Want
  • Determined
  • Chapter

• I'm built for whichever scheme they put me in.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Me
  • Put
  • Scheme

• My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • America
  • Hero
  • Captain

• I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage and more comfortable.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Real
  • Remember

• When my grandchildren are older and my great-grandchildren start growing up, first of all, I want them to be in Israel. I don't want them to leave the country because they have no choice.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Work
  • Hurt
  • Professional

• When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Country
  • Attention
  • Media

• Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Time
  • War
  • Enemy

• I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

  

  Maluma
  • Lyrics
  • Filled
  • Margins

• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• When he died I had a moment of grief that lasted about five minutes. It was very intense, then never again. Not because I forced myself, but I think it was because he caused us too much pain.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Pain
  • Grief

• Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Happy
  • Strong
  • Smile

• Somewhere under the hurricane a sea turtle rows through silence.

  

  Alicia Ostriker
  • Silence
  • Hurricane
  • Turtle

• If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.

  

  David Bosch
  • Character
  • Ignorance
  • Existence

• I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

  

  John Cleese