John Crowley Quotes

Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

John Crowley

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• I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Connection

• I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Think
  • Because
  • Welcome

• I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Find
  • Looking
  • Looking Back

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

  

  Basil Hume
  • Death
  • Suffering
  • Week

• Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • History
  • Famous
  • Weather

• I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Dad
  • College
  • Successful

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Up
  • World
  • Responsibility

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that person was born into a world that had a third as many people as the world does today. The population has tripled in the past 85 years.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• The truth is, I'm not body confident.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Truth
  • Body
  • Truth Is

• Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Technology

• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wait

• There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Power
  • Truth
  • Man

• It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • America
  • Hollywood
  • Late

• I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Casualties

• We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • World
  • Alone

• I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Thought
  • Ambition
  • Surprise

• The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Women
  • Power
  • Sex

• But a morbid consciousness that others did not give him the place which he had not demonstrably merited-a perpetual suspicious conjecture that the views entertained of him were not to his advantage- a melancholy absence of passion in his efforts at achievement, and a passionate resistance to the confession that he had achieved nothing.

  

  George Eliot
  • Passion
  • Achievement

• Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

  

  John Crowley