John Osborne Quotes

It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

John Osborne

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• I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Know
  • I Can

• Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.

  

  Larry Brown
  • School
  • Kids
  • Worship

• 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

• Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Dead

• Smoke machines are the best!

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Best
  • Machines
  • Smoke

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Woman
  • Sex
  • Thanks

• Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Family
  • She
  • Think

• The delights of self-discovery are always available.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Learning
  • Always
  • Available

• Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Strange

• Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Important
  • End
  • Story

• The truth is I don't feel too bad for my age. I actually have a better shape now than I used to.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Age

• Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Life Is A

• Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Inspiration
  • Shows
  • Comments

• I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and a firefighter, and my mum is a secretary for the NHS.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Earth
  • Dad
  • Background

• And let us remember that in a global economy, a country’s greatest resource is its people. So by investing in you, this nation can open the door for far more prosperity - because unlocking a nation’s potential depends on empowering all its people, especially its young people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Remember

• I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Real
  • Small

• Sometimes there’s no point in giving up.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Up
  • Giving

• There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • House

• The raccoons, foxes, beavers, chinchillas, minks, rabbits, and yes, sometimes even dogs and cats that are killed for fur are not very different from your beloved dog or cat. They all have eyes, ears and hearts. They all experience pain when they are physically maimed. They shake with fear when they experience terror.

  

  Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Fear

• Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.

  

  John Oldham
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Light

• A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

  

  Henry St. John
  • Precede
  • Friendship
  • Nivitiate

• I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Optimistic
  • Qualities
  • Major

• It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

  

  John Osborne