John Osborne Quotes
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Quotes to Explore
-
I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
-
If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
-
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
-
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
-
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
-
In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
-
The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
-
Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
-
I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
-
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
-
So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
-
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
-
The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
-
A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
-
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
-
There is no job description for the first lady and she's only there because her husband got elected president.
-
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
-
I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
-
I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.
-
The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.
-
President Obama's over in Indonesia when guys like me were at a paper route. President Obama, I don't know what experience he had at that same age when he was in Indonesia. So I think it's hard for him to grasp that America entrepreneurial spirit.
-
People in Hollywood go home to their wives and children who look like they do. If you're in that position, your natural thought pattern is sometimes to think, 'Superman, oh yeah he's white.' You can't get mad at somebody for doing that. It's the world they live in and for some, they only live in that bubble.
-
Politicians of all stripes are always in danger at looking at every problem from an abstract point of view or being briefed by officials, academics, or economists who know every science but the science of human nature.
-
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
