John D. MacDonald Quotes

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

John D. MacDonald

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• Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Bad
  • Reality
  • Never

• You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Game
  • Funny
  • Baseball

• I've always taken direction pretty well.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Pretty
  • Taken
  • Always

• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  

  Abdus Salam
  • Race
  • Will
  • Generosity

• The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Never

• To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Thinking
  • Cold
  • Doing

• When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Work
  • Great
  • God

• To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Respect
  • Laws
  • Watch

• I do movies I would go to see.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Movies
  • See
  • Go

• I live in Surrey, but up until the age of eight I lived in London. And the way I heard about this 'Peter Pan' film was there was an open-call audition that I'd heard about, or read about, and I just thought, 'Oh, I'll go along for the fun.' Because I never dreamed in a million years I'd ever get it.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Up
  • Live
  • Fun

• In Russia, we eat a lot of heavy food like potatoes and lots of meat. I can't eat one apple or a salad a day. You wouldn't want to come talk to me if I don't eat. I have to eat, or I am in a really bad mood.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Food
  • Mood
  • Meat

• With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Good
  • Line
  • Cheesy

• Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Independent

• That's the joke about confinement pigs: they taste like whatever sauce you cook them with.

  

  Joel Salatin

• Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Question

• I'm not a big 'cry on a shoulder' person. I'm very introverted when it comes to my own stuff.

  

  Khloe Kardashian

• We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Job

• Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

  

  Brian Schweitzer
  • Good

• What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Business
  • Experience
  • Knowledge

• I'd quite like to invent something that allows me to in eat the shower - not sure what it would entail. Some sort of funnel that goes from the plate to my mouth to move the food to my mouth and keep it dry, perhaps.

  

  Daniel Rigby
  • Food

• You can read 50 great things about yourself, but the one bad thing will be what you remember most.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Bad

• I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans.

  

  A. L. Rowse
  • Feelings
  • Cat
  • Might

• My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

  

  Alice Eve
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • Friendships