Jon Favreau Quotes

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

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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 was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.

  

  Taliesin

• Very rarely is there any confusion as to when a painting or a song is finished. You just know when it's done.

  

  Brandon Boyd Incubus
  • Done
  • Song
  • Painting

• I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Feeling

• The majority can never replace the man.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Man
  • Never
  • Majority

• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  

  George Eliot
  • Imagination
  • Windows
  • Fear Of Dogs

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

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Painting