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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Style
  • Enthusiasm
  • Skill

• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Me
  • Animals

• It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.

  

  Frances Wright
  • May
  • Best
  • Liberty

• People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• Jesus, lover of my soul,let me to Thy bosom fly,While the nearer waters roll,while the tempest still is high.Hide me, O my Savior, hide,till the storm of life is past;Safe into the haven guide;O receive my soul at last.

  

  Charles Wesley
  • Life
  • High
  • Soul

• True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • True
  • Inspiration
  • Fears

• it is a cheering thought to thinkthat god is on the side of the best digestion

  

  Don Marquis
  • God

• Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family.

  

  Andy Zaltzman
  • God
  • Politicians
  • Believes

• I will not negotiate the demise of the ACA with the Trump administration, but I would certainly be willing to work with responsible Republicans to fix some of the problems, particularly by strengthening the individual purchasers market to bring younger and healthier people into the risk pool.

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • People
  • Work
  • Risk

• 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