John Cleveland Quotes

Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

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• You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

  

  Garry Marshall
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • You

• One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Up
  • Moments
  • Looks

• I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Book
  • Want

• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.

  

  Nancy Willard
  • Question
  • Child
  • Silent

• Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • She
  • Mom
  • Marriage

• You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Mind
  • You
  • Going

• Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear certain color greens, but I have such yellow skin so I always like to wear bold colors.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Color
  • Red
  • Green

• In terms of being a role model, I didn't start out to be one. I don't go to work every day with that in mind. But, I do get a lot of fan mail from young girls.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Day

• Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Time
  • English
  • Said

• The concept of power we admire is power over someone else.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Power
  • Someone
  • Admire

• Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • Together
  • Simple

• 'When times are stable, and the sea is calm and secure, no one is really tested.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Sea
  • Calm

• Dark City is such an underrated film.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • City
  • Dark

• You are intellect, I am life!

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life

• I don't have to spend a lot of time figuring out, 'Gosh, I wonder how guys feel,' because most every piece of art I look at invites me into that experience.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• The only thing I hate is when bad food is paraded as something great, and people are charging a lot for it.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Marketing

• There is something strange about me. I don't ever feel at ease in a group of people. I have to fight hard to overcome my fears.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • People

• Political leaders still think things can be done through force, but that cannot solve terrorism. Backwardness is the breeding ground of terror, and that is what we have to fight.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Thinking
  • Force
  • Terrorism

• For action to work, you need an awful lot of coverage. Because if you do a fight sequence, you really need to be able to creed the energy in the edit or augment the energy in the edit. So you need to really, really cover it.

  

  James Watkins
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Action

• The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Women
  • Country
  • Girl

• Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.

  

  John Cleveland