John Selden Quotes
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Quotes to Explore
-
Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
-
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
-
I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
-
Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
-
I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
-
I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
-
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
-
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
-
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
-
I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
-
I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.
-
Roadrunner wanted to make Born in the Flood the next Nickelback, but I didn't want to be that. I didn't want to be a huge rock star playing songs I didn't like. I didn't want to be stuck playing 'Anthem,' the song everybody liked but I didn't want to put on the record, for the next five years.
-
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
-
Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
-
The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
-
For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
-
We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.
-
Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
-
We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
-
All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.
-
Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.
-
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
