John Gunther Quotes

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

John Gunther

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• I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Enjoy
  • Common
  • Condition

• Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • You
  • Stop
  • Dad

• We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• The retirement timing is always a tricky thing for a dancer. I think it's different for everyone. How you say goodbye to the thing you have really focused on that much is a tough one. I've always intended to leave in good shape, to exit on a high note.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Good
  • Different
  • High

• This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Music
  • Country
  • Remember

• In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Women
  • Remember
  • Strong

• When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Father
  • Wrong

• I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Trying
  • Help
  • Team

• U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Animal
  • Take
  • Middle East

• I felt like I was building this world brick by brick with each layer of instrumentation I was doing. I could see it growing in some ways. I feel like most writers feel the same way. You're almost living inside of this magic world that you're building.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Growing
  • Magic

• Any competent programmer has an API to cash, payments, escrow, wills, notaries, lotteries, dividends, micropayments, subscriptions, crowdfunding, and more.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • More
  • Cash
  • Programmer

• I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my skin erupt.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Want
  • Act

• Working on a film is so great because you have the luxury of more time when you're on a movie than when you're on television.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Great
  • Movie

• I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • Father
  • Want

• On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Special
  • Wrong
  • Roots

• May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Young

• You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Respect
  • Decisions
  • Debate

• I fully expect to be doing yoga for the rest of my life.

  

  Ali MacGraw
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Yoga

• I'd like to just say that there's nothing darker than 'Old Yeller' and 'Bambi' and some of the early Disney stuff.

  

  James Lapine
  • Disney

• English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Tea

• The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • War
  • Civilization
  • Measure

• All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

  

  John Gunther
  • Breakfast