John Paul Jones Quotes

Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

John Paul Jones

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• I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.

  

  O. Winston Link
  • Strong
  • Doing
  • Healthy

• The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • First
  • Step
  • Key

• I didn't know Albert back then - I just learned to play that way. He and I were the only guys that played left-handed. Then left-handed people came from every direction.

  

  Otis Rush
  • People
  • Know
  • Play

• When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Find
  • Cancer
  • Everyone

• She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Passionate
  • Sacred
  • Feminine

• I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Loved
  • Greatest
  • London

• Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Role
  • Bee
  • Dinosaur

• Big screens helped propel Samsung to top-tier prominence and helped iPhone sales explode a few years later. But for many, including myself, the biggest-screen models just weren't practical, because their overall size made them too large, too bulky, and too heavy.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Myself
  • Sales
  • iPhone

• Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Life
  • Why
  • Scenery

• The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • War
  • Law

• In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • Life
  • See

• There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

  

  Salli Richardson
  • God
  • Movie
  • Doing

• I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Family
  • Earth
  • Die

• Google is not a synonym for research.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Research
  • Google

• But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.'

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Red
  • Blue

• What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air Falling towers Jerusalem Athens Alexandria Vienna London Unreal

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Earth
  • City

• Just as seeing Heaven's light gave him an awareness of God's presence in all things in the mortal plane, so it has made him aware of God's absence in all things in Hell.

  

  Ted Chiang
  • God
  • Light
  • Heaven

• How can you not respect somebody like me? If you don't respect me, it's because you got hatin' all over you. If you don't like me, you don't like yourself.

  

  Keyshawn Johnson
  • Respect

• Environments are invisible. Their groundrules, pervasive structure, and overall patterns elude easy perception.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Perception

• The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • People
  • Up
  • Free

• A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.

  Colson Whitehead
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is going, you have your team, and you can focus all of your angst and your hopes and dreams on your team. I am in no way saying it always relieves any of this!

  

  Alex Gibney
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Team

• Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

  

  John Paul Jones