John Lahr Quotes

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

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• If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Nice

• In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Learning
  • Key
  • Digital

• Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Great
  • Impact

• I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Service

• Honesty is something you can't wear out.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • You
  • Something
  • Honesty

• The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • World
  • Animal
  • Dog

• A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • School
  • House

• In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Society
  • Past

• Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.

  

  Yul Brynner
  • You
  • Now
  • Smoke

• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • You
  • Nation
  • Become

• As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Old
  • Grow

• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Leisure

• Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Environment
  • Adaptation

• I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Words
  • Struggle
  • Start

• I got to a stage where tennis was the only thing in my life, and I didn't like that.

  

  Luke Mitchell
  • Life
  • Tennis

• I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Me

• Even today, England is a very repressed, repressive country, and there's pressure to be kind of a certain way, so people do things that ultimately make them sad.

  

  Ben Whishaw
  • People
  • Country
  • Today

• It was the old New York way of taking life 'without effusion of blood': the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than 'scenes,' except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Life
  • Courage

• His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

  

  John Lahr
  • Life
  • Long