John Morley Quotes
Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.
Quotes to Explore
-
A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
-
I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
-
If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
-
Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
-
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
-
On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
-
Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
-
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
-
I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
-
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
-
We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting forms of violence and destruction upon ourselves. This is our new reality.
-
For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
-
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
-
The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
-
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
-
I don't think Christ becomes real to us until we hit a low point in our lives and realize just how much we need Him. That's why faith affects every area of your life.
-
I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
-
I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
-
I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.
-
It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.
-
The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.
-
Matt Weiner is very perceptive; there's something about the rhythms and the way people speak that is very authentic to the actor. But there are qualities that are dissimilar. The characters on 'Mad Men' are struggling with pretty profound unhappiness, but I can tell you this is a happy bunch.
-
It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
-
Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.
