John Heywood Quotes

When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

John Heywood

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• I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Strong
  • Like
  • Look

• When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Best

• Not all those who wander are lost.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Lost
  • Wander
  • Those

• If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Life
  • Race
  • Brotherhood

• When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Team
  • Support

• When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Food
  • Stop
  • Perfect

• While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Which left my fifth Juno sitting, seemingly abandoned by its four family members, on my bookcase in my dining room.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Family
  • Abandoned
  • Dining

• For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Money
  • Road
  • Touring

• Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Want
  • Ideal
  • Virginity

• You live in the city and all the time there are signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to sell you something.

  

  Banksy
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying

• I love working closely with people.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Love
  • Working

• We live in a world where it's difficult to be a woman who is strong and confident, so I like to surround myself with friends that embody that same principle and idea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Live
  • Friends

• Together we can make a world where cancer no longer means living with fear, without hope, or worse.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • World
  • Together
  • Hope

• I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Past
  • Training
  • Injuries

• Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Responsibility
  • Justice
  • Cancer

• The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • School
  • Transformation

• I couldn’t avoid being a poet. I was really having a pretty rough time of things, and I had a lot of energy, and poems were practically the only recourse I had to alleviate that energy and that anxiety. I take no credit for all the poems I’ve written. They were a way of releasing anxiety.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Energy

• I think it’s -you know, it’s victory of the value of human rights, of the value of anti-corruption, of the value of anti-dictatorship. So I don’t think that I am the only one who win this Nobel Peace Prize.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Peace
  • Value
  • Victory

• …English translation of the Koran. I wonder how, with such a repetitive farrago of platitudes, expressing so self-evident a theology and an ethic so puerile, Islam can have spread as it has.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Wonder

• Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'

  

  Jennifer Hudson
  • Up
  • Food

• I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

  

  Loni Love
  • Comedy
  • Friend

• On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

  

  Arne Jacobsen
  • Hand
  • Quality
  • Grandma

• At the end of my career, am I going to say I did well, but I didn't give it my all? I'd be very, very angry with myself if I didn't give 100 percent. If I gave my all and I got to whatever point in the world, I could look back and at least I say I did the best I could.

  

  Jason Day
  • World
  • Career
  • Angry

• When all candles be out, all cats be grey.

  

  John Heywood