John Rampton Quotes

One of the hardest tricks that I had to learn was saying the word 'no.'

John Rampton

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Real
  • Challenge

• It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Environment
  • Better

• I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • People
  • Job
  • Happy

• We convinced him quickly that the possibility of war was absolutely nil and continued our festivity. On the next day we were ordered to take the field.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • War
  • Day
  • Him

• Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • Free
  • Economy
  • Manufacturing

• Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • World
  • Today
  • Rest

• I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Truth

• The junk-bond era has also spawned something that calls itself New Historicism. This seems to be a refuge for English majors without critical talent or broad learning in history or political science. ... To practice it, you must apparently lack all historical sense.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • History
  • Science
  • Political

• Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Writing

• The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • House
  • Small

• Although he is disappointed, I know he will step forward and play a really important part in Labour’s future.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Important
  • Future

• My aim for now is to lead a peaceful revolution to remove this regime. I think if I can be in the street with the people I can achieve more than if I am the president.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Revolution

• The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Understanding
  • Fire
  • Abuse

• I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.

  

  Marc Chagall
  • God
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Rock is much more malleable than ideas.

  

  Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Rock

• If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.

  

  Daniel Portman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Nice

• The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

  

  Jeff Bewkes
  • Long
  • Value
  • Management

• What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.

  

  Joe Meno
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Chicago

• My favourite eras for styles are still the 70s and 40s, and there will be a few iconic pieces to build the wardrobe around, like there were at Chloe, but I want there to be a feel of mix-and-match.

  

  Phoebe Philo

• To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Search

• If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

  

  David Ogilvy
  • People

• The space station mission was kind of the culmination of all of my experience of being a NASA Astronaut, so it had brought all of my previous experience into play. I had to learn the Russian language to a fluent level so that I could function as the co-pilot of the Soyuz Spacecraft that we flew up and back from the space station. And then the challenge of being the Commander of the whole expedition, a six and a-half month flight aboard the international space station. I felt the burden of the whole mission on my shoulders, which was fine, and fortunately everything did go well.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Space

• Fish seem to be rather conservative around this bay, one seldom catches enough to form the fundamental basis for a lie. Dante left out one of the torments of Hades — I could imagine a doomed mortal made to untangle wet fish lines forever. Everybody lost patience at the stupidity of the fish in not coming forward promptly to be murdered.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Conservative
  • Fish
  • Bay

• One of the hardest tricks that I had to learn was saying the word 'no.'

  

  John Rampton