John Lithgow Quotes

The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious.

John Lithgow

• Hilarious

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Years
  • New
  • Generation

• I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Good
  • Movie
  • You

• I'll keep doing my training and I'm sure the goals will come.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Training
  • Doing
  • Goals

• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Boy

• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Need

• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Moment
  • Wings
  • Plane

• We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

  

  P. F. Strawson
  • Language
  • Rules
  • Logic

• I try to come to Asia twice a year. I also go to Europe - to London as well as to France to see my family - four or five times a year.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Family
  • Try
  • London

• In the weeks after 9/11, out of the pain and the fear there arose also grace and gratitude, eruptions of intense kindness that occurred everywhere, a sharp resolve to just be better, bigger, to shed the nonsense, rise to the occasion.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Kindness

• I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Think
  • Example
  • Terrorism

• I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Working
  • Results
  • Trainer

• When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon - anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Dream
  • Inspiration
  • Specific

• My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Music

• There'll be the same old faces,in the same old places,where my youth was well misspent,but I toe the line and move in time,to a town called no regrets.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Time

• I'm very concerned with what's going on the news, but I would not call myself a political animal, per se. I pay more attention during election years, or if I see some topic or issue that I care about. But I would never call myself a political animal or political junkie.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • Political
  • Attention
  • Animal

• There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Women
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Great
  • Courage
  • Path

• Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

  

  Dirk Benedict
  • Children
  • Home
  • Parents

• Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • People
  • Hope
  • Society

• I have a family I love. They tend to say, 'Great job!' Or 'You work really hard! Good for you!' Or 'You look nice today!' Or 'Don't be ridiculous, order the fries!' Or 'You are hilarious.' That's all the family I need.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• Any joke can be funny, but not any joke is funny. Any joke has the potential to be hilarious to you, but more importantly, the joke has the potential to not be funny to you but to someone else.

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Funny
  • Hilarious

• The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Hilarious