John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent into a system, and we lose some of their boldness by that. Obviously, you have to learn the ropes, but I think it's important to do that without hammering out the radicalness that makes innovation happen.
-
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
-
I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
-
Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
-
I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.
-
You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
-
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
-
You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
-
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.
-
And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!
-
I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
-
The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
-
Everyone is trying to make these huge songs; I just make things that I want to listen to. Music that I will be comfortable listening to 10 years from now, that's my only thing.
-
You should always carry string, according to my archaeologist father, because then you could at least make a trap to catch animals to survive. According to my grandmother, it was clean underwear.
-
I have to keep testing myself.
-
Frank Stella is not interested in expression or sensitivity. He is interested in the necessity of painting.. .His stripes are the paths of brush on canvas. These path leads only into painting.
-
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.
-
The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
-
Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their struggles.
-
Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick.
-
I have always believed that the aristocracy of any country should be the men who have succeeded - the men who have aided in upbuilding their country - the men who have contributed to the efficiency and happiness of their fellow men.
-
A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
-
I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.
-
It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.
