John Major Quotes

A soundbite never buttered any parsnips.

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Difficult

• Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Fans
  • Generation
  • Late

• It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

  

  Karen Kain
  • Different
  • Job
  • Help

• I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Best

• Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Stop
  • Police
  • Scandal

• While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • World
  • Great
  • Eyes

• Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Food
  • Me
  • Conscious

• The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Great
  • Love
  • Home

• In 2009, at the height of the global economic crisis, it was clear that we were seeing something new: the impacts of the crisis were flowing across borders at unprecedented velocity.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Clear
  • Seeing

• I hate touchy-feely things.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Hate
  • Things

• A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Misfortune
  • Conceal

• We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Live

• I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.

  

  Robert Dwayne Womack
  • Up
  • Music

• I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Up
  • Live
  • Song

• My family and I are hooked on 'The Searchers.' I can't get enough of it.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Family

• I like to keep it really balanced to give my body energy and also be healthy.

  

  Emily Ratajkowski
  • Energy

• Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • World
  • Money
  • Art

• My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. I never really wanted to do anything else.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • World
  • Family
  • She

• I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.

  

  Brian Thomas Littrell The Backstreet Boys
  • People
  • Stupid
  • I Love

• I don't get butterflies. I get a good feeling in my stomach before I compete. When I don't, I get worried.

  

  Chloe Kim
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Creation

• Writing about where I was from and the people I knew was not something that would have occurred to me early on, because like so many Southerners of that period - the Sixties - I rejected those things when I went north.

  

  Bobbie Ann Mason
  • People
  • Writing
  • Period

• A soundbite never buttered any parsnips.

  

  John Major