John Glover Quotes

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

John Glover

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• The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Country
  • City
  • Broken

• Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • World
  • May

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Love

• First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Important
  • Trying

• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • People
  • Kind
  • Early

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Find

• What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Mind
  • Problem
  • Star

• I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Everyone
  • Meet
  • Almost

• I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Speak
  • Place
  • Dead

• Don't let your dreams be dreams.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Dreams
  • Your
  • Your Dreams

• The truth needs so little rehearsal.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Truth
  • Needs
  • Rehearsal

• I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Dad

• There's an adage that a lot of coaches have, that I completely disagree with, is if you make the Olympic team too early you become complacent.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • You
  • Team
  • Early

• The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • People
  • God
  • Family

• A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Nature
  • Father

• There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • Help
  • Strong

• Especially, I don't want to ever be compared to The Rock because I'd be the poor man's version of The Rock. I'm just not him; it's not who I am as a person or as a performer. The Rock's very big and bold, and I'm not.

  

  Dave Bautista
  • Rock
  • Bold

• It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

  

  Kevin Pietersen
  • Fun
  • Trust

• To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

  

  Edward Livingston
  • Comfort
  • Relieve

• Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Life
  • Father
  • Trouble

• Ah, what without a heaven would be even love!--a perpetual terror of the separation that must one day come.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • Terror

• It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

  

  John Glover