John Gordon Sinclair Quotes

A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

John Gordon Sinclair

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• You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.

  

  Jack Black
  • Power
  • Never
  • Underestimate

• I don't know anyone who likes the American League games better. Maybe some fans do. But if you're not an actual DH, you probably prefer the National League.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • American
  • Know
  • Better

• You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • You
  • Right
  • Counsel

• I think ballet has influenced my personality a lot in the sense that I am very disciplined in all of my endeavours. I am always on time; I take things very seriously. I've built up my inner strength and self-esteem over time as I've improved as a dancer.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Personality

• I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Different
  • Family
  • American

• It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • More
  • Praise
  • Train

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• You never know what can happen in football. It's football.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Football

• All the embroidery is made in my father's workshop in India... and all the cutting and sewing is done in my studio.

  

  Naeem Khan
  • Done
  • Father
  • Cutting

• I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Home
  • Very

• I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Football
  • Understanding
  • Discipline

• You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Mystery

• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute player.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Song

• She must have walked through life with men like him falling at her feet, squashing them underfoot like autumn leaves. It probably happened so often that all she noticed was that nice crunching sound.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Life
  • Men
  • She

• With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Space
  • Design

• Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

  

  Anthony J. D'Angelo
  • Time

• I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

  

  David Bergen
  • Book

• If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Driving

• You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Horse
  • Sassy
  • Peasants

• My dream, even now, is to walk for weeks with some friend that I love, leisurely wandering from place to place, with no route arranged and no object in view, with liberty to go on all day or to linger all day, as we choose; but the question of luggage, unknown to the simple pilgrim, is one of the rocks on which my plans have been shipwrecked, and the other is the certain censure of relatives, who, not fond of walking themselves, and having no taste for noonday naps under hedges, would be sure to paralyse my plans before they had grown to maturity by the honest horror of their cry, "How very unpleasant if you were to meet any one you know!" The relative of five hundred years back would have said "How Holy!”

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Dream
  • Friend
  • Liberty

• A lot of people don't want to hear too many gory details, ... when you buy a B-share you are still paying a load.

  

  Eric Jacobson
  • Details
  • Load

• When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

  

  Tara Leigh Patrick
  • Bad

• Fly ash helps create longer-lasting and stronger concrete for use in roads, bridges, runways, and rail transit.

  

  Matt Rosendale
  • Fly

• A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

  

  John Gordon Sinclair