John Knoll Quotes

I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.

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• I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Good
  • Game
  • Lost

• I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Think
  • Rock

• I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • New
  • Warrior
  • Princess

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Time
  • Great
  • Book

• Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Life
  • Present
  • Positive

• Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Simple
  • Trust
  • Try

• You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • You
  • Television
  • Hours

• Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? … No other human institution comes close.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • People
  • Up
  • Science

• I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Time
  • Drawing
  • Drinking

• The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Evil

• Of course, I'd also suggest that whoever was the genius who thought it was a good idea to read things ONE F*CKING BYTE AT A TIME with system calls for each byte should be retroactively aborted. Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they not die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Time
  • Good
  • Die

• The secret of love is in opening up your heart.It's okay to feel afraid,But don't let that stand in your way, no.'Cause anyone knows that love is the only road.And since we're only here for a while yeahMight as well show some style.

  

  James Taylor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Style

• I don't compose. I assemble materials.

  

  Aaron Copland

• Mr. Greenwood, when moving the Amendment yesterday, told us that the war would shake many strongly held views. I fear that this war will do very much more than that. The war will bring about changes which may be fundamental and revolutionary in the economic and social life of this country. On that we are all agreed.

  

  Anthony Eden
  • Life
  • Country
  • May

• 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

  

  Dave Barry

• Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Up

• I don't know about England so much, but in Germany and some of these other countries, the pink was something that they liked. For those kids, the pink and black and the whole look with the sunglasses and the leather jacket was the right kind of hero they could get behind, and I think that really set me apart from everyone else.

  

  Bret Hart
  • Kids
  • England
  • Leather Jacket

• I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Time
  • Writing

• I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Feels

• I loved movies. In particular, I loved movies depicting places and events that obviously you couldn't have gone out and shot. It was obvious you were looking at something that had been manufactured in some way. I was fascinated by that.

  

  John Knoll