John Irving Quotes

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

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• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Think
  • Grace
  • Elegance

• I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Science
  • Hate

• I wouldn't overestimate the importance of my popularity in the country and abroad but at the end of the day it's not as important because I believe that my presence here could make some difference and it could encourage people.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Strong
  • Enemy

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• 5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Focus

• In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible... I don't want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Trying
  • Beginning

• The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Men
  • Free
  • Desire

• I'm happy, and I think being happy keeps you looking young.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Being Happy

• I remember as a kid being really scared of the Smurfs.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Scared

• This is what we propose now to the Treasury: either the property owners expropriate themselves, or we summon the masses of war veterans to march against these obstacles and overthrow them.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • War
  • Obstacles
  • March

• The people who control culture in China have no culture.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Culture
  • Control

• Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• Fair stands the ancient Rectory, The Rectory of Croft, The sun shines bright upon it, The breezes whisper soft. From all the house and garden Its inhabitants come forth, And muster in the road without, And pace in twos and threes about, The children of the North.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Children
  • House
  • Road

• I don't feel comfortable with the glorification of violence. But, as an actor who has had long periods of unemployment, you have to be lenient with your convictions.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Long
  • Violence

• I'm from the Midwest, so I always assumed, 'Well, I have to think badly of myself, because that's being humble.'

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Humble

• I'm definitely in a place where I'm looking for different than what I've done in the past, just so I can go to work and do something I haven't done before.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Work
  • Different
  • Done

• Baltimore has proven themselves on the football field. We can't take that away.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Football

• A franchise is dictated on the success of doing one film right, so if you can get it done correctly, you've got a chance of something else, but sometimes it just doesn't work that way. Ideally, it's insurance for the future; if you can do something, if you can find a character that people really do like, then you're very lucky.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• As Akins observes, it is not the point of our sensory systems that they should detect 'basic' or 'natural' properties of the environment, but that they should serve our 'narcissistic' purposes in staying alive; nature doesn't build epistemic engines.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Nature
  • Environment

• I don't like to be caught without a pick.

  

  John Prine
  • Caught
  • Pick

• Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either.

  

  John Irving