John Niven Quotes

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• When I went to drama school, I knew I was at least as talented as other students, but because I was a black man and I wasn't pretty, I knew I would have to work my butt off to be the best that I would be, and to be noticed.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Work
  • School
  • Pretty

• I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Eye
  • Away

• The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Spiritual

• Remember that the good angels do what they can to preserve men from sin and obtain God's honor. But they do not lose courage when men fail.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and I did not adapt very well to the, to the style of the place, and I spent most of my time in the public library.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • Time
  • Style
  • Library

• I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.

  

  Halsey
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Saying

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

  

  Laura Marano
  • School
  • High
  • Kind

• Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Model
  • Library
  • Partner

• I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Remember
  • Space
  • Moment

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Fish

• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Remember

• I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • School
  • Community
  • Play

• There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• When I was a senior in high school, I did an internship with a law firm. And it was very clear that I did not have what it took to do that kind of work.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.

  

  Jesse Andrews
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I've voted Libertarian as long as I can remember, but I don't really remember much before the Clintons and the Bushes. Those clans made a lot of us bugnutty.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Long
  • Remember

• Justin was a juvenile probation officer for a number of years. He has seen the inside of kids who have gotten in trouble. Now he spends his time speaking at school assemblies. He also works a lot with MADD and DARE. I've read that he's talked to 400,000 students in the last year.

  

  Steve Howe Yes
  • School
  • Kids
  • Trouble

• i'm not scared of ruining my image. i think that's right. as long as i'm a celebrity, i want people to look at me and be happy. if people become happy and have fun by seeing me wreck my image, i think that's more than enough for me.

  

  Yook Sung-jae BtoB
  • People
  • Happy
  • Celebrity

• I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.

  

  John Niven
  • School
  • Remember
  • Library