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

• I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • World
  • Music
  • Rock

• 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

• Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Country
  • Professional

• 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 will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

  

  Joel Silver
  • People
  • Action
  • Stupid

• Play begins as a major feature of mammalian evolution and remains as a major method of becoming reconciled with our present universe.

  

  Brian Sutton-Smith
  • Universe
  • Present

• I would say my legs would be my strength. I think I have the perfect legs.

  

  Krystle D'Souza
  • Perfect

• I suffer from the same frustration that every decent American suffers from. That is, that you begin to wonder whether decent liberal instincts, decent humanitarian instincts, can actually penetrate the right-wing voice, get through the steering of American opinion by the mass media.

  

  John le Carre
  • American
  • Opinion
  • Wonder

• And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Continue
  • Labour

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

  

  John Cleveland