John Lithgow Quotes

The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.

John Lithgow

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• To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Real
  • Play
  • Film

• The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Unity
  • Been
  • Strangers

• I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Time
  • Stupid
  • Speak

• I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Parents
  • Loving
  • Were

• There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • You

• Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Think
  • Judge

• I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • New York

• In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Opinion
  • Advice
  • Theater

• Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Space
  • First
  • Back

• A multilateral world trade system is our very best hope for addressing the broad range of issues such as market access, tariff and nontariff barriers to trade, trade in services, and trade facilitation.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Hope
  • Best

• I started writing poetry in high school because I wanted desperately to write, but somehow, writing stories didn't appeal to me, and I loved the flow and the feel and sense of poetry, especially that of what one might call formal verse.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• Anyone can relate to struggle, whether you're European or Asian. Anyone can relate to having to get up and go to work and eat.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Work
  • You

• In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • War
  • Cold
  • Intensity

• There's a real sense of camaraderie with sitcoms.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Real
  • Sense
  • Camaraderie

• The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of 'Le Language des Fleurs,' written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book - which was a list of flowers and their meanings - de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Flower

• I never really thought about modelling. It wasn't something I ever wanted to do. I used to always be so angry about modelling.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Angry

• Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Nature

• It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.'

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Moving

• Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off in opposite directions. This custom is called 'a conference'.

  

  S. J. Perelman

• No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.

  

  Joan Allen
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Sad

• Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system because there's a lot of people, there's money, there's a big machine to kind of make it - and how to find methods and processes that allow it to continue to be a lively process and a creative process.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • People
  • Money

• The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.

  

  John Lithgow