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.

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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

• O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

  

  Abraham Coles
  • Best
  • Land
  • Empire

• Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Life
  • Men
  • Beautiful

• The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Confidence

• He's showing the league what he's about. He's a really good point guard who does what's asked of him. You already know you're going to get good shooting out of him. But the way he's defending and running the ball club -- those are things every team wants. Free agency is going to be great for him this summer.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Great
  • Free

• For this team, as young as we are, any type of championship environment is good for us.

  

  Dave Farrell Linkin Park
  • Team
  • Young
  • Championship

• 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