John Jay Chapman Quotes
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry as did Clifford, for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought.
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TV can reach broad audiences, mass audiences, niche audiences; it can be local, regional, national; it can be spots, sponsorship, interactive. It can be anything you want it to be. I tend to think of TV as the Swiss Army knife of media, it's got something for everybody.
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Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
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Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
