John Gunther Quotes

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

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• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Relationship
  • Desire
  • Effort

• Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • World
  • Together
  • Democracy

• Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • English
  • Word
  • Text

• Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • House
  • Options
  • New Yorker

• Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Goals
  • Gym

• I'm not radical.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Radical

• He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Secret
  • Communication

• This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Women
  • Cool
  • Now

• Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Pretty
  • Thought
  • Back

• Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

  

  Pam Gems
  • Heart
  • Drama
  • Said

• I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Child

• I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • History
  • Player
  • Road

• I'm just a down-to-earth guy.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Just

• If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Long
  • Control
  • Myself

• It took me a while to get used to moving and jumping in the sand. It takes a lot more effort in the sand.

  

  Brooke Sweat
  • Moving
  • Effort

• Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Game
  • You
  • Baseball

• I was fascinated by the culture clash between England and America in the 1950s. My first memories are of being a girl in those post-war years when things were really pretty grim. It wasn't like that in America, which was real boom time.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Time
  • Real
  • America

• When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.

  

  Jenna Ushkowitz
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Driving

• It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

  

  John Gunther
  • Driving