Jon Favreau Quotes

Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.

Jon Favreau

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• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Character
  • American

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• An actor has to embody a role.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Actor
  • Role
  • Embody

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Change
  • Living
  • Iron

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Years
  • New
  • New York

• All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Earth
  • Military
  • Blue

• Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Live
  • Man
  • Employment

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Art
  • Science
  • Running

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Moment
  • Busy
  • Month

• The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Important
  • Writing

• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Good
  • Real
  • Heroes

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• All histories do shew, and wise politicians do hold it necessary that, for the well-governing of every Commonweal, it behoveth man to presuppose that all men are evil, and will declare themselves so to be when occasion is offered.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Wise

• The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Habit

• I love to talk about sports. I love sports; it's just something that's in my nature.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • Nature
  • Sports

• The materialisation of reforms in the form of rollout of the GST, the institution of Indian Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, and the abolition of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board should boost investor and investment confidence.

  

  Urjit Patel
  • Investor
  • Reforms
  • Materialisation

• It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Mean

• The implied terms of the racial contract are visible everywhere for those willing to see them.

  

  Justin Brannan Caninus
  • See
  • Racial
  • Visible

• Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Painting