John Lithgow Quotes

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Respect
  • Relationship
  • Leaving

• We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Myself
  • Intellectual
  • Were

• Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Art
  • Looking

• I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Stage
  • Flow

• We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Revolution
  • Battle
  • Ending

• If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Say
  • Other

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Proud

• We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • America
  • Ideas
  • Democracy

• What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.

  

  Oliver North
  • World
  • Good
  • Done

• Many use Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes for daily transactions like going to theatres, malls, and trading purpose. People like these are unnecessarily put to inconvenience.

  

  Vijay
  • People
  • Purpose
  • Daily

• Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Protection
  • Deception
  • Fraud

• What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • God
  • Law
  • Worry

• I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Work
  • Film
  • Stars

• It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • May
  • Wish

• It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Skinny

• Adequacy is sufficient.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Sufficient
  • Adequacy

• Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Wisdom
  • Spring
  • Shadow

• I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • History
  • Proud
  • Bible

• ...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc.

  

  Charles Fourier
  • Work
  • Lawyer
  • Soldier

• Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Suffering
  • Sympathy
  • Watches

• I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Country
  • Remember
  • You

• I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

  

  John Lithgow
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