John Young Quotes

There can be stresses. 'I don't want to see the look of disappointment in my children's faces. Is it my fault?' The sense that I'm failing my wife, my children.

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• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Fun
  • Audience
  • Looks

• One of the things performers worry about is who you follow. But if I can't top what I heard in the last hour. ... There wasn't one iota of humor! You guys are so serious.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Serious
  • Worry
  • Humor

• As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Different
  • Father
  • Conservative

• Be black, shine, aim high.

  

  Leontyne Price
  • High
  • Black
  • Shine

• Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer, very much the real deal. She tells me that every single Irish review of her new book has made passing reference to Cecelia Ahern. Weird, given that Emer is to chick-lit what Shane MacGowan is to sobriety.

  

  Olaf Tyaransen
  • Real
  • She
  • Book

• Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Men
  • Lost
  • Eternity

• Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Culture
  • Way
  • Hip Hop

• I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.

  

  Pablo Francisco
  • Mother
  • Fall
  • Baby

• ...went to a bar for a few drinks. The bartender asked what I wanted. "Surprise me", I said. So he showed me a naked picture of my wife.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Wife
  • Picture
  • Drinks

• I told my doctor I got water on my knee, he gave me a sponge and raised his fee!

  

  Jack Roy
  • Water
  • Doctor
  • Knee

• Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.

  

  V. Raymond Edman
  • Good
  • Future
  • Faith

• Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Form

• I may not stay in Russia all the time but I'm still based in Volgograd and I don't have plans to move abroad permanently, at least for now.

  

  Yelena Isinbayeva
  • Plans
  • Russia
  • Abroad

• It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty, and misery, the end and extreme of things—the thought of God comes into one's mind.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • God
  • Mind
  • Poverty

• Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Jesus
  • Prayer
  • Perfection

• My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Argument
  • Citizenship

• Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Conscience
  • Credit
  • Cowardice

• A man's world, but a white man's planet.

  

  Capital Steez
  • Planet
  • Man's World

• Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Children
  • Potential

• There can be stresses. 'I don't want to see the look of disappointment in my children's faces. Is it my fault?' The sense that I'm failing my wife, my children.

  

  John Young
  • Failing