John E. Walker Quotes

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

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• If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Change
  • Me

• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• I'm not a control freak.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Control
  • Control Freak

• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Government
  • Revolution
  • West

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Time
  • Good
  • Trying

• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Country
  • America
  • Like

• If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Truck

• I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Band
  • '80s

• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • People
  • Children
  • Love

• I don't judge my characters.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Judge
  • Characters

• I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Way
  • Always
  • Camera

• When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Song
  • Me
  • Gift

• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Like
  • Baseball
  • Sound

• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • World
  • Try

• I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Time
  • My Life

• It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

  

  Elizabeth Crook
  • Movies
  • Genre
  • Western

• Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

  

  Plato
  • Great
  • Done

• Selling cookies helped me to realize that you needed to have a certain way to communicate with people. You also needed business skills. You knew you needed to sell a certain amount of boxes, so that gave me some business sense.

  

  Maria Bartiromo
  • People
  • Business

• I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

  Biz Stone
  • College
  • Learning
  • Environment

• When I came out of college, shoe companies can identify marketable people, and I think I was identified as someone who could potentially move some units and merchandise.

  

  Keyshawn Johnson
  • People
  • College

• In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

  

  John E. Walker
  • College