John Webster Quotes

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

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• Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Me
  • Powerful
  • Hold

• I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Give
  • Finished

• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Want
  • Broadway
  • Toy

• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Positive

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friendship
  • Will
  • Naked

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
  • General

• When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Greatest

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Peace
  • Leadership

• While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • School
  • French
  • Bram Stoker

• Men are my bread and butter. It's what I live for! I have no shame about that.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Men
  • Live
  • Bread

• Eventually the man comes to see that he has a mind, and that his mind is like a fist, wrapped tightly around a single thought. He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter what the cost.

  

  Ben Loory
  • Men
  • Important
  • Mind

• I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Time
  • World
  • Opportunity

• I feel like winning a world championship was a hurdle I had to get over.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • World
  • Winning
  • Championship

• Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

  

  John Webster
  • Men
  • High