John Wilkes Quotes

We've patched some roofs, cut a lot of trees and cleared roads, and we've given out a lot of food and water and ice.

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• I mean yeah, your individual style is your impression to the world.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • World
  • Mean
  • Style

• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Faith
  • Authority
  • Stands

• When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Up
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• Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Up
  • May
  • Want

• My mum has lived in Australia for 22 years now, and we have a rocky relationship. But at the same time it's one I want to maintain. I need her to be my mum. The relationship took a lot of rebuilding.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Play
  • Best
  • Video Games

• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
  • Doing
  • Saying

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
  • Believe
  • English

• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Road
  • Hell
  • Milestones

• I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Science
  • Kid
  • Fiction

• We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Friends
  • High

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Hope
  • You
  • Human

• I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Young
  • Looking
  • Portfolio

• You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Me
  • Silence
  • Sword

• The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Power
  • Always
  • Influence

• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
  • Body
  • Look

• I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Future

• My kind of work is very intense. The trouble with me is that I completely fling myself into it. I get giddy. I get terrible crushes on jobs.

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Work

• At the end of the day, it seems like there's a critic archetype for food movies, like with 'Ratatouille' or anything. You know, if you were doing a puppet show about chefs, one puppet would be the chef, one would be the critic.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Food

• In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Help
  • Will

• By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Genius
  • Certain
  • Mystery

• We've patched some roofs, cut a lot of trees and cleared roads, and we've given out a lot of food and water and ice.

  

  John Wilkes
  • Food
  • Water
  • Given