John Lithgow Quotes

You don't see many films about a long, long relationship.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Influence

• I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Happens
  • Starbucks
  • Mostly

• It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Choice

• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Giving
  • Best
  • Effort

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Golden

• The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Love
  • Reflection

• Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Building
  • Blossom

• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Wish
  • Always
  • Three

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Movies
  • Protected
  • Profits

• It is not that I don't like contemporary country music because I do. I love it. I have recorded a lot and have had great success recording records that have not been very traditional country records.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Great
  • Music
  • Country

• Throughout my career as a lawyer, teacher and labor leader, books have remained my constant companion - stuffed into a briefcase, overflowing on my bedside table, stacked on my desk at work. Books have carried me to distant worlds, opened new doors and made me feel empathy, compassion, anger, fear, joy, acceptance - and everything in between.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Career
  • Fear

• I'm not like most comedians. I don't deal with just heckles - I'm also dealing with threats and anger. Here I am, a brown person on stage being quite blunt. I talk about white privilege; I talk about U.S. imperialistic practices; I talk about colonialism. I'm not saying things that are easy for people to laugh at.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Stage
  • Laugh
  • Anger

• I think the world is run by 'C' students.

  

  Al McGuire
  • World

• To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Modern

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• You don't see many films about a long, long relationship.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Long
  • Relationship