John Cleveland Quotes

He that to ancient wreaths can bring no moreFrom his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.

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• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Things
  • Speech
  • Precious

• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • God
  • Men
  • War

• I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Like
  • Being
  • Just

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Religious
  • Nothing

• I just want to make everyone happy.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Everyone

• Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

  

  Dan Abrams
  • Pretty
  • Decisions
  • Boring

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Character
  • Christian

• I grew up in a household without a TV. We lived next door to a library for a while, and at one point, I checked out all the books in the fairy tale section. I remember the librarian's quiet smile as I'd bring back one stack and exchange it for another.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Door

• Quite frankly, I think if a man or a woman likes their American job, wherever they were born, they should be able to keep that job. We need a clear path to citizenship for workers who are already here and a fair and efficient on-ramp for those who want to come here.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Job
  • American
  • Man

• Call it not paranoia, but caution.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman

• My work is atheistic, materialistic and communistic. It's atheistic because it's without transcendent form, without spiritual or intellectual quality. Materialistic because it's made out of it's own materials without pretension to other materials. And communistic because the form is equally accessible to all men.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Work
  • Men
  • Quality

• They bring my music to life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music

• To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Music
  • Live

• I am a grateful... grapefruit.

  

  Bjork

• I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope. If it were offered to me? Never say never. But I wouldn't kill or steal to have my sight. My blindness doesn't define my life.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Life
  • Help
  • Hope

• Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Confidence

• That's not a prediction, that's a spoiler.

  

  Paul Heyman
  • Prediction
  • Spoiler

• London cabs always dis me. I purposefully give them a good tip because I'm trying to straighten up the image where they don't want to pick up some shady-looking, bummy kid like myself. I'm trying to teach them that if you pick up the bummy-looking kid, you still get tipped, man. But they still jerk me around.

  

  Mike D The Beastie Boys
  • London
  • Pick
  • Cabs

• In the 1960s when the recording studio suddenly really took off as a tool, it was the kids from art school who knew how to use it, not the kids from music school. Music students were all stuck in the notion of music as performance, ephemeral. Whereas for art students, music as painting? They knew how to do that.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I would have any one, who really and truly has leisure and ability, make verses. I think it a more refining and happy-making occupation than any other pastime accomplishment.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • Ability
  • Accomplishment
  • Leisure

• He that to ancient wreaths can bring no moreFrom his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.

  

  John Cleveland