John Keats Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
-
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
-
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
-
When I'm looking for hot button answers to tough questions, I don't look to congressman or my mayor. I say, 'What would Miss U.S.A. have to say about this?'
-
I don't put myself under pressure.
-
I write in freehand equivalents because measuring, to me, takes away from the creative process of cooking. Two turns of the pan with EVOO is about two tablespoons.
-
I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together.
-
Oh, mercy, I think we're all storytellers, you know. You think of the excuses you told your parents for why you got home late. I just never gave it up.
-
I can't run on treadmills; they drive me nuts.
-
Once a champion, always a champion.
-
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
-
It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
-
I want to make my own movie.
-
I drove a brand new Lamborghini, the Huracan; it was great. We went on the Autobahn, and we got to drive on the Nurburgring.
-
Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
-
I definitely want to continue acting and performing.
-
The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
-
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
-
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
-
People are always saying bad things about them, but really they think they're just trying to clean up our planet. I'm not saying it's right but, you know, we could all benefit from following that example.
-
I kicked the door open, and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.
-
I spent the first half of my career very much in the closet professionally. I was concerned that I wouldn’t be seen as working hard and achieving things, and I always wanted a big and robust career in media.
-
If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
-
Forlorn! the very word is like a bellTo toil me back from thee to my sole self!
