John Fletcher Quotes
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
Ignatius of Antioch -
Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
Quentin Tarantino -
It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.
Gary Burghoff -
Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
Larry Ellison -
I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
Gavin MacLeod -
The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
Natalie Cole -
I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.
Quentin Blake -
I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged two and a half books a year.
L. E. Modesitt -
Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
Walter Lang -
Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
Larry David -
An old friend once told me, you don't go fill up your car with gas at night and then park it in the garage.
Gary Player
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Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.
Octavia E. Butler -
The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
Ashley Montagu -
When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.
Bertrand Russell -
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.
Bertrand Russell -
Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.
Rickie Lee Skaggs -
I cast unusual people in my movies.
Albert Brooks
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It means nothing if the movie doesn't get out there.
Kim Novak -
In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.
Confucius -
Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.
Tony Danza -
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us.
Aristotle -
I find the medicine worse than the malady.
John Fletcher