John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• 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.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Important
  • Learn
  • Innovation

• I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!

  

  Sai Baba
  • People
  • Hope
  • Want

• Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Work
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Peace

• 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.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Time
  • Good
  • Done

• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Time
  • Style
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Team
  • Better

• 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.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Language

• And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Fine
  • Wants
  • Honestly

• I really hate rubber ducks, actually.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Hate
  • Really
  • Ducks

• 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.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Live
  • Nature
  • City

• 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.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Listening

• 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.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Father
  • Grandmother
  • Animals

• I have to keep testing myself.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Myself
  • Keep
  • Testing

• 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.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Painting
  • Path
  • Canvas

• For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • People

• The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Mind
  • May
  • Hand

• Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Experience
  • Feeling

• This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • World
  • Real
  • Done

• The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • World
  • Inspired
  • Perspective

• With over 70 licensees, not sure if there is much left. Maybe oxygen? Ed Hardy is unique in that we have a broad range of products and something for everyone.

  

  Christian Audigier
  • Unique

• The highest that a man can attain is to be able to do.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff

• Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Age

• It is unpleasant to turn back, though it be to take the right way.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding