John Lithgow Quotes

I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.

John Lithgow

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• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Yourself
  • Changing
  • Analysis

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • World
  • Proud
  • Broadway

• We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Best
  • Hair
  • Never

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Protect

• The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Just
  • Computer
  • Laptop

• I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Think
  • Been
  • University

• Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• To be a superstar is incredible pressure. And also in our country, I'm going to speak about this, America. We have a way of kind of making it hard on our superstars. I don't sense it when I go to Europe or I go to Japan.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Country
  • America
  • Speak

• I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Want

• I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

  

  Larry Page
  • Work
  • Together
  • Technology

• The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bed

• The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

  

  Dan Savage
  • War
  • Bible
  • Slavery

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Country
  • She

• Who hath not proved how feebly words essayTo fix one spark of beauty's heavenly ray? Who doth not feel, until his failing sightFaints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confessThe might, the majesty of loveliness?

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Words

• The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Never

• My mom is positive and optimistic.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Mom
  • Positive
  • Optimistic

• I never was interested in acting, and I never became good at it.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • Good

• The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Optimistic