John Prescott Quotes

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

John Prescott

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• Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • American

• I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Good
  • Voice
  • Treat

• For the future world-trading regime to mirror economic reality and to allow the use of modern business strategies, we need a single overarching multilateral framework for trade. We can have either a flat world or a patchwork of crisscrossing mountain ranges and tunnels.

  

  Victor Fung
  • World
  • Business
  • Future

• My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Job
  • Best
  • Author

• I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Myself
  • End

• It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Freedom
  • Simple
  • Tolerance

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Up
  • Running
  • Exercise

• History is the unfolding of miscalculations.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • History

• Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Patience

• People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• The Many is as adorable to the One as the One is to the Many. This is the Love of These; creation-parturition is the Bliss of the One; coition-dissolution is the Bliss of the Many. The All, thus interwoven of These, is Bliss. Naught is beyond Bliss.

  

  Aleister Crowley

• You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Promise

• When Aventura began, there was a lot of salsa and merengue, and we said, 'Let's just do what we do.' Then Aventura blew up, but urban was in its prime.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Up

• When I ran the first time in 2001, they called me 'The Latino Mayor.' By the time I left in 2013, with a 58 percent approval rating, half the people liked me, half the people didn't. I was everybody's mayor. There was never any criticism that I was just for one group.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • People
  • Time
  • Criticism

• At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.

  Charles B. Rangel

• When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.

  

  Tyler Cowen
  • Innovation

• The Oscars is always the most special event of Awards Season and is the grand finale - there's just something about the atmosphere that makes it magical.

  

  Carly Steel

• Most of us who aspire to be tops in our fields don't really consider the amount of work required to stay tops.

  

  Althea Gibson
  • Work

• I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Writing
  • Moving

• I did not want to become a poster child for yet another disease.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Child
  • Disease
  • Poster

• If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.

  

  John Prescott