John Lithgow Quotes

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

John Lithgow

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• My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Generation
  • Tough
  • Last

• My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Love

• My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Stress

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • More
  • Self
  • Execution

• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Family
  • Stability
  • Promotion

• There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • People
  • Good
  • Know

• I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Meet
  • Hug

• I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Difficult
  • More
  • Little

• I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Country
  • Thought

• When you're governor, you've got to step up to the plate; you've got to make a proposal for a balanced budget. That's the requirement. And then you've got to sit down and negotiate if the folks that you need to work with disagree with you on points.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Work
  • Down

• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brain

• I began studying ribosomes as a postdoctoral fellow in Peter Moore's laboratory in 1978.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Studying
  • Laboratory
  • Moore

• I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. The sun came up like gold through the trees, and I felt like I was in heaven.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Heaven
  • Sun

• Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Lovers
  • Smoke
  • Grasp

• My friends, there is one spot on earth where the fear of Death, of Sin, and of Judgment, need never trouble us, the only safe spot on earth where the sinner can stand - Calvary.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Friends
  • Death
  • Earth

• She grunted. 'Nothing unusual?''That’s right.''Well, if you ask me, that’s pretty unusual right there, if a body was smart enough to notice it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty
  • Smart
  • Unusual

• What I like about 'Paper Girls' in particular is that, because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more and think more of their interiority.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Emotional
  • Perspective

• I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Future
  • Earth
  • Amazing