John Oldham Quotes

Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Water
  • Nothing
  • Flexible

• If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Movie
  • Dream
  • Girl

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Singing

• I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Know
  • Dreaming
  • Expecting

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Play

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• A song of mine called 'I'll Take Care of You' was on that 'Wide Open Spaces' Dixie Chicks album.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Song
  • Care
  • Take Care

• When I watch myself, I see nothing but faults, like, 'This I need to do different, this I need to do different,' and so if there comes a point in time where I'm like, 'Man, this whole thing is just getting really stale,' I am not opposed to being the bad guy again.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Bad

• I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Want
  • Show
  • Just

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Life
  • Words

• We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Way
  • President
  • Administration

• There is no way from us to God - not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way - even of this way - would not be God.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God

• There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • God
  • Children
  • Happiness

• Lord of myself, accountable to none, but to my conscience, and my God alone.

  

  John Oldham
  • God
  • Alone