John Hurt Quotes

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

John Hurt

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• The Southern Ground warehouse is rocking and rolling in Atlanta, with a T-shirt shop and a leather shop; everything we're selling at our shows we're making or publishing ourselves.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Everything
  • Selling
  • T-shirt

• I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Kids
  • Deal
  • Pretentious

• If you don't feel like you're ready to get your license - just because people are putting pressure on you, don't feel like you have to rush into something. Take your time, really feel confident and be ready. It doesn't matter what other people say, do what's best for you and makes you feel safe.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Night

• To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Song
  • Me
  • Soothing

• I don't like doing the same material over and over again. It's not fun.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Again

• Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Hope
  • Despair
  • Blues

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• Philanthropy is often seen as society's risk capital. That means the onus is on philanthropists, nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs to innovate. But philanthropic innovation is not just about creating something new. It also means applying new thinking to old problems, processes and systems.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Thinking
  • Society
  • Risk

• If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Authoritative

• A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • High
  • Looks
  • Someone

• Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Live
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • World
  • Women
  • Hurt

• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Part

• The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Up
  • Art
  • House

• I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Life
  • Game
  • Hate

• I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Past
  • Collected
  • Memorabilia

• With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Work
  • Done
  • Song

• The bud, though plucked, would not be withered, only transplanted to a fitter soil to ripen and blow beneath a brighter sun; and though I might not cherish and watch my child's unfolding intellect, he would be snatched away from all the suffering and sins of earth; and my understanding tells me this would be no great evil; but my heart shrinks from the contemplation of such a possibility, and whispers I could not bear to see him die.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Understanding
  • Suffering
  • Child

• When the opportunities come, we may not want to buy another nickel asset, but if something comes cheap enough, we're all about return on equity.

  

  Ivan Glasenberg
  • Opportunities
  • Return
  • Buy

• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.

  

  Paul Dudley White
  • Health
  • Gadgets
  • Bicycling

• My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.

  

  Hilary Swank
  • Growth
  • Uncomfortable
  • Dealing

• For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

  

  John Hurt