John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • House
  • Kind
  • Crazy

• When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Alone
  • Trust

• Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Why

• When I first lived in a model apartment... It was two bunk beds to a room, and the bathroom was constantly in use. I was bringing in Lucky Charms cereal, and one day an agent put a stop to that. She said, 'You're making all the girls fat.' They took it off our grocery order. That was the most dramatic thing that happened.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • She
  • Stop
  • Day

• It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Job

• There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Book
  • Reality

• I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Family
  • Girl
  • Right

• I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Woman
  • Walking
  • Red

• They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Never
  • Going
  • Before

• I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Hope
  • Universe
  • Focus

• It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Earth
  • Control
  • Sky

• I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Look
  • Internet
  • Try

• I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Kid

• I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • She
  • Day
  • Before

• My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Joy

• All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Jump

• I remember one time I wrote something very, very critical about Wilt Chamberlain. The next time I saw him - and Wilt was not a man, as huge as he was - he was not a man of confrontation. And we were in the Lakers locker room. And he sent Jerry West over, and he said, 'Frank, Wilt would like you to leave.'

  

  Frank Deford
  • Time
  • Remember

• I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

  

  Nicholas Davies
  • Life
  • Comfortable
  • Zigzags

• life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • People
  • Thinking

• I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Internet
  • Afraid
  • Computers

• When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

  

  Jerry Reed Hubbard
  • People
  • Money
  • Simple

• We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding