John Hurt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
-
When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
-
Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
-
When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
-
The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
-
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
-
I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
-
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
-
The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
-
Mister Cee's a legend, man.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
It took years for me to figure out what my body needs and that what works for my friends doesn't necessarily work for me. Doing yoga five times a week has transformed my body.
-
Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
-
I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
-
I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
-
No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
-
I have very eclectic tastes.
-
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
-
In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
-
The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.
-
Playing solo with an audience for an hour and 30 minutes without a break means I have to, as the jazz cats say, get into the shed and work on my chops.
-
There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.
-
Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.
-
We're all just passing time and occupy our chair very briefly.
