John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.

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• I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Been
  • Little
  • Little Bit

• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Good
  • Long
  • Health

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• To make headway, improve your head.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Make
  • Head
  • Improve

• Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Great
  • Look
  • New

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • People
  • Attention
  • Win

• I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Time
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Children
  • Words
  • Poetry

• The fact that one can lose one's sense of self in an ocean of tranquility does not mean that one's consciousness is immaterial or that it presided over the birth of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Universe
  • Ocean
  • Self

• I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Great
  • Love
  • Yourself

• I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Individual
  • Victims
  • Hypocrisy

• However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • May
  • American
  • Language

• The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • World
  • Long
  • Relationship

• It's hard not to love everything Prada does.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Hard

• If you look at people who have an iPhone or Android and are under 40 and are dissatisfied with their bank, it's actually quite a large market.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Bank
  • iPhone

• Richard’s ex-girlfriends were long gone, but their voices followed him all the time and spoke to him, like Muses or Furies. It was like having seven superegos arranged in a firing squad before a single beleaguered id, making sure he didn’t enjoy that last cigarette.

  

  Neal Stephenson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Single

• Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad. It should provide resources as needed, and it should make it clear to the authorities in Belgrade that inaction does have repercussions on bilateral relations.

  

  Tim Bishop
  • Successful
  • Authority
  • Responsible

• I am the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Marathon Agency, a new venture with my business partner Steve Carless. It's a management, branding, marketing, and business strategy. I'm in charge of marketing and branding clients like Nick Cannon, Nicki Minaj, and more.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Business
  • Management
  • Partner

• I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Lyrics

• The genius is childlike. Like children he looks into the world as into a new creation and finds there a perennial source of wonder and delight.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • World
  • Children
  • Wonder