John Constable Quotes

The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

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• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Win

• And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • God
  • Justice
  • Military

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.

  

  J. Cole
  • Taken
  • Risk
  • Hot

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
  • Competition
  • Communication

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Change
  • Fashion
  • Confidence

• I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Actor

• My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Attention
  • Technology
  • Race

• I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Children
  • Love
  • Never

• If it's a good song, it doesn't really matter if it's trendy or not. It will hit.

  

  Tablo
  • Good
  • Song
  • Will

• I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Man

• Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Thought

• 'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Never
  • Heard

• Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Country
  • Man

• There's just something so special about 'God Made Girls.' It comes from a girl's perspective, and there's nothing like that on radio right now, and so I think that's what made us able to pick that song as a single.

  

  RaeLynn
  • God
  • Song
  • Girl

• I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes.

  

  John Kasich
  • Time
  • Done
  • House

• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• The game of soccer has been able to give me what I wanted out of life. I just remember being a total Tomboy and athlete as a girl, but never having a lack of opportunity.

  

  Tiffeny Milbrett
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Giving

• Shut off the internal bashing.

  

  Melody Carlson
  • Teenage
  • Internals

• The sound of water escaping from mill dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things.

  

  John Constable
  • Water