John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

We neglect the opportunities which are always present, and imagine that if those that are rare were offered, we should put them to good use. Thus we waste life waiting for what if it came we should be unprepared for.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Secrets

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fight
  • Train
  • Wherever

• Dancing has always been a passion of mine.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Passion
  • Always
  • Mine

• I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Important
  • Business
  • Thought

• Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Future
  • Science
  • Fear

• My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • School
  • Teacher
  • Childhood

• When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Listening
  • More
  • Tells

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Hands
  • Forget
  • Blood

• You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Great
  • Live
  • Poetry

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Important
  • Money
  • Better

• We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • War
  • Know
  • Peace

• We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Life
  • Artists
  • U.S.

• I'm a smoky eye girl. I love playing with eye colors, metallics... fun stuff!

  

  Kat Graham
  • Fun
  • Girl
  • Playing

• There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Think
  • City
  • New York

• I would not say I'm an aggressive shopper. I want to be; I aspire to be an aggressive shopper. I am a meek, meek shopper.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Aggressive
  • Aspire
  • Shopper

• As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

  

  James Packer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• You show a movie to your friends when you're working on it, but you don't have any real objectivity. You just don't know. So that moment when it's shown for the very first time at Sundance, it's just terrifying. I'm so anxious. And then every screening is different.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Time
  • Different
  • Real

• I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds. 14 people showed up, it was overcast.

  

  Jay London
  • People
  • Up
  • Clouds

• I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?

  

  Andrea Corr

• We neglect the opportunities which are always present, and imagine that if those that are rare were offered, we should put them to good use. Thus we waste life waiting for what if it came we should be unprepared for.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life
  • Good
  • Present