John Zorn Quotes

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

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• I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Life
  • Change
  • Alone

• Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Magazines
  • Collecting
  • Shift

• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Original
  • Both

• I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Love
  • Happens
  • Saying

• I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • Same
  • Motivational

• We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Always
  • Angels
  • saw

• I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Change
  • Week
  • Relax

• There's definitely something transformative about clothes.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Something
  • Clothes

• I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Road

• All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Over

• Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Focus
  • Details

• The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Amazing

• The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Society

• The Russians obtained a number of plants under Lend-Lease, which had been authorized by Washington, that I thought were not justified for their war effort. They wanted them for postwar use.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • War
  • Effort
  • Plants

• Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Art

• I love a man who can wear my underwear.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Man
  • Wear
  • Underwear

• As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away from the team. It's exciting for me. I felt like I've been really getting better as far as my conditioning every single season as I get older.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Team
  • Single
  • Training

• Stop being who you were and become who you are.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Stop

• Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the world of literature. The lives of African-Americans are rich and diverse, and the books our children read should reflect that.

  

  Valerie Wilson Wesley
  • World
  • Children
  • Book

• We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm. But how we think about consumption and willpower carry enormous implications for the environment and the culture of society as a whole.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Environment

• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • True
  • Society
  • Travel

• Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.

  

  Denise Richards
  • Makeup

• The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.

  

  John Zorn
  • Society