John Warner Quotes

There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.

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• I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Feel
  • Angry

• Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Succeed

• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Future
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Best

• Chances are you're using overeating as a way to escape yourself. It's an attempt not to feel or think about what you really need to feel and face.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Escape

• Coming out of the '60s and the Vietnam War in America, it was commonplace for people to make films that had relevance to them. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • America
  • War

• What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Moments
  • Reflection
  • Pure

• For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. 'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.' Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art: it's not for everyone.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• There are now discussions taking place on other aspects of the negotiating framework, principally on this issue about absorption capacity and privileged partnership.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Partnership
  • Aspects
  • Discussions

• I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Action
  • Reading

• When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • India
  • Explanation
  • Confusing

• Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Thinking
  • Religion
  • Race

• Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Art
  • Entertainment
  • Cream

• Mostly I try to be the best example of me that I can be.

  

  Baratunde Thurston
  • Trying
  • Example
  • Being The Best

• Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Sales
  • Resolve
  • Salespeople

• We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Reach
  • Higher
  • Constantly

• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Men
  • Children

• The humility of Jesus can be seen in the crib, in the exile to Egypt, in the hidden life, in the inability to make people understand Him, in the desertion of His apostles, in the hatred of His persecutors, in all the terrible suffering and death of His Passion, and now in His permanent state of humility in the tabernacle, where He has reduced Himself to such a small particle of bread that the priest can hold Him with two fingers. The more we empty ourselves, the more room we give God to fill us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Giving
  • Passion

• There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.

  

  John Warner
  • Example
  • Resolve
  • Fight back