John Mortimer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
-
It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
-
I love improvising.
-
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
-
There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
-
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
-
I am not going to say much about the film 'Maidentrip,' but I won't be representing it, as I am not fully standing behind it.
-
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
-
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
-
You have to be proud of who you are.
-
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
-
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
-
Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
-
I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
-
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
-
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
-
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
-
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
-
The show isn't about screens, and we don't have any video content or lasers or things blowing up. I want people to come to our show to listen. I want the show to be the music.
-
I came from Brooklyn. My nickname was Moochie.
-
Folks say that you've found someone new to do the things I used to do for you. Just call my name, I'm not ashamed, I'll come running back to you. Can't sleep at night, Ican't eat a bite. When you were mine I didn't treat you right. Just call my name,I know, I know I'm not ashamed. I'll come running back to you.
-
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
-
I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
-
If you can't sleep with your own wife wearing a false beard, what can you do?
