John Oliver Quotes

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

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• Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Wisdom
  • Moral
  • Practical

• Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Time
  • Vision

• When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Old

• I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Success
  • Present
  • Car

• We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Pink

• I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Think
  • Lost
  • Movies

• If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Meet

• Well, I'm an independent person.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Person
  • Independent
  • Well

• I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Friends

• My eye? It's a genetic thing. My dad had it, and now I have it. You know, I just found out that it may be correctable a little bit, because it does impair my vision. When I look up, I lose sight in this eye. I think, maybe for other people, it informs the way they see me.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • Affection

• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

  

  Sallust
  • Better
  • Fair
  • Conquer

• I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Cinema
  • Educated
  • Genres

• Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.

  

  Yvonne De Carlo
  • Men
  • Matter
  • Leave

• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Choices
  • Win
  • Choice

• People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • More
  • Optimistic

• I acted my heart out.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Heart
  • Out
  • Acted

• I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.

  

  Dan Webster
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'

  

  Matthew Quick
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• The only ground of hope for the continuance of our free institutions is in the proper moral and religious training of the children, that they may be prepared to discharge aright the duties of men and citizens.

  

  Zachary Taylor
  • Men
  • Children
  • May

• The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain range, without counting, and who will suffer and die in the midst of incredible hardship, without complaint, is still what he has always been, from Imperial Rome to sceptered Britain to democratic America. He is the stuff of which legions are made. His pride is in his colors and his regiment, his training hard and thorough and coldly realistic, to fit him for what he must face and his obedience is to his orders. He has been called United States Marine.

  

  T. R. Fehrenbach
  • Men
  • Fighting
  • Training

• I didn't really realize I was a woman director until I walked onto the set at Pinewood Studios when I did 'Mamma Mia!' and everybody was calling each other 'Governor' and 'Sir'... and then, looking at me, 'Well... good morning!'

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Good
  • Morning

• I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Up
  • Hope
  • Fear

• Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

  

  John Oliver
  • Training