John Irving Quotes

Imagining something is better than remembering something.

John Irving

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• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Winning
  • Hollywood

• The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Real
  • Like
  • Myths

• Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Life
  • Good
  • Home

• Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Why
  • Name
  • Hindsight

• We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Women
  • Proud

• The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • You
  • Down
  • Step

• My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and so when I was a kid, I always heard jazz around the house, but I also went to his gigs, whether it be a Saturday brunch in my hometown Columbus, Ohio. We'd go and hear him play with some of the local musicians.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • House
  • Jazz
  • Saturday

• The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

  

  OMI
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Meaningful

• I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Job
  • Best
  • Part

• I think we have lost track of a core Republican principle of limited government and balancing budgets and restraining federal spending. We have got to change the system.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Think
  • Change
  • Lost

• I love Evian face spray because it's a really easy way to just freshen up your face, especially if you're traveling on an airplane - I get really dry on airplanes.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Face
  • Traveling
  • Especially

• When you're around somebody like E-40, all you can do is watch and learn, and soak up game.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • Game
  • You

• I said to my team, 'I'm doing 'Gilmore Girls' no matter what. There's no way I'll miss it,' because I owed it to the story. The story is bigger than the sum of its parts.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Team
  • Doing
  • Said

• My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Family
  • Enough
  • Successful

• I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Body
  • Unique
  • Popular

• Let's try common sense. A novel concept.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Sense
  • Novel
  • Concept

• To see a candle’s light, one must take it into a dark place.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Dark

• Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

  

  Publilius Syrus
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Reality

• When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

  

  Andre Previn
  • Music
  • Cold
  • Criticism

• It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Long
  • Giving
  • Sweet

• 'Pitch Perfect 2' is about the Bellas and what happens to them as they get older. All your favorite characters are coming back. Chrissie Fit was great, and Hailee Steinfeld is such a pro - she fit right in. I had no idea she was 17! She's the most mature girl ever.

  

  Ben Platt
  • Great
  • She
  • Girl

• The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Live
  • Right
  • Arms

• Imagining something is better than remembering something.

  

  John Irving