John Glen Quotes

I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.

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• I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Family
  • Love

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.

  

  Young Buck
  • Trying
  • Struggle
  • Grind

• Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Falling

• Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Good
  • Know
  • Understand

• I've always had an addictive nature.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Nature
  • Always
  • Addictive

• If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Myself
  • Horse
  • Same

• With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Time
  • Band
  • Perfection

• Say something personal, not from a publicist.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Something
  • Say
  • Personal

• My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

  

  Ice T
  • Family
  • Father
  • Brother

• You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.

  

  A. Lawrence Lowell
  • Seek
  • Satisfy
  • Objective

• It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.

  

  Taylor Phinney
  • People
  • Know
  • Cool

• It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • World
  • Labor
  • Others

• If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Life
  • Vision
  • Goals

• The role of president, as George W. Bush commented in 2000, requires vision, management, and an eye for talent - not so different from that of CEO. But during the first years of Carter's presidency, his Cabinet was anything but businesslike, beset by infighting and meetings that ambled.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Different
  • Vision
  • Eye

• In India, we have a concept of caste. It has a concept of escape velocity. If one belongs to a backward caste and wants to attain success then one needs an escape velocity to attain that success. Dalits in this country need the escape velocity of Jupiter to attain success.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Country
  • Success

• Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Time
  • Long

• Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Good
  • Live
  • Free

• If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Species
  • Rainforests

• Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem to hear the unreasonable demands of the petulant, unmoved, and the tedious details of the dull, untired. That is the least price that a man must pay for a high station.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Men
  • Business
  • High

• I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.

  

  John Glen