John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Happy
  • Easy
  • Own

• I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Boy
  • Doing
  • Silver

• All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Government
  • Human
  • Act

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Architecture
  • Republican

• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Important
  • Real
  • Know

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Song
  • Feeling
  • Hate

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Working
  • Captain
  • Waiter

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Friends
  • Night
  • Light

• I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Happy
  • Father
  • Parents

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Wife
  • Said
  • Girlfriend

• I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Different
  • Me
  • New York

• The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Temperament
  • Framed
  • Distrust

• Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Done
  • Truth
  • Sports

• The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

  

  Tad Williams
  • World
  • Men
  • War

• I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Day
  • Sometimes
  • Bag

• I'm a competitive person.

  

  Bob Ehrlich

• The ploughman knows how many acres he shall upturn from dawn to sunset: but the thinker knows not what a day may bring forth.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • May
  • Sunset