John Lawson Quotes

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

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• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Trying
  • School
  • Love

• There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Great
  • School

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Black
  • Artist

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Why
  • Friend
  • Best

• Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Money
  • Art
  • Forgive

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• Time stays, we go.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Go
  • Stays

• My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

  

  Edie Brickell
  • World
  • She
  • Food

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Me
  • Role

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Trust
  • Fact
  • Main

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• If we humans disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World

• Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • World
  • Trust
  • Hardest

• It is all a question of weeding out what you yourself like best to do, so that you can live most agreeably in a world full of an increasing number of disagreeable surprises.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • World
  • Live
  • Question

• All I can say is that, as an industry, we are trying to come together and find a way of constructively making a system where we all have a safe environment, and it's going on. I am part of that, and I hope that we come up with a constructive system which is equal and genderless for every human being.

  

  Radhika Apte
  • Environment
  • Being
  • Going

• The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.

  

  John Lawson
  • World
  • America