John Mortimer Quotes

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

John Mortimer

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• I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • People
  • World
  • Pain

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Work
  • Country
  • Year

• Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Time
  • Science
  • Practice

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Long
  • Pretty

• Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Engineering

• Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • Want
  • Play
  • YouTube

• I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Children
  • Past
  • Worry

• I want to write my own stuff, and, you know, it would be nice to put myself in it. But I would like to hope that there are going to be better roles offered as well and that I don't need to do everything. You know, like, I appreciate my career being somewhat DIY, but it would be nice to get some help.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Help
  • Hope
  • Career

• Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Think
  • Body

• I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • Band

• Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Will
  • Over
  • Ghost

• I got my story, my dream, from America. The hero I had is Forrest Gump... I like that guy. I've been watching that movie about 10 times. Every time I get frustrated, I watch the movie. I watched the movie before I came here again to New York. I watched the movie again telling me that no matter whatever changed, you are you.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • America
  • Movie

• I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Movie
  • See
  • Popcorn

• When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Desire
  • Survive
  • Helped

• If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Character
  • Feel
  • Yourself

• No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Proud
  • English
  • Beauty

• I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Different
  • Happy

• To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Comedy

• 'Hairspray' has never been irrelevant, which is, in some ways, heartbreaking.

  

  Dove Cameron

• There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

  

  John Mortimer