Jon Feltheimer Quotes

I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.

Jon Feltheimer

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Know

• Sometimes, I'm driving along in my car, and a song from my high-school years comes on the radio: Springsteen's 'Thunder Road.' Just the opening few chords make me want to roll down the window and let the wind blow back my hair.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • School
  • High
  • Song

• I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Success

• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• However great the exertion of our mind may be to comprehend the Divine Being or any of the ideals, we find a screen and partition between Him and ourselves. Thus the prophets frequently hint at the existence of a partition between God and us.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • God
  • Mind

• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Democracy
  • Idea
  • Slave

• Same-sex marriage is not the future.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Future
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I'm not here to say I don't eat vegetables - I do, a lot of them - but, from a soil perspective, they're actually more costly than a cow grazing on grass.

  

  Dan Barber
  • Perspective
  • Grass
  • Soil

• We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Food
  • Period

• Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • Hate
  • Matter

• 'Transformers' gives people the ability to relax and rest for three hours. That's a substantial amount of time, given how plugged in to our devices we are. People don't give themselves enough time to sit down. They're no longer comfortable with themselves.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Time
  • Rest

• In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Trying
  • Chess

• Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Universe
  • Door

• I kind of like being depressed.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Being

• So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Win
  • Vote
  • Election

• To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just escaped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Period

• Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Pretty

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Much of the time I’ve spent trying to impress people has been a waste. The reality is people are impressed with all kinds of things: intelligence, power, money, charm, talent, and so on. But the ones we tend to stay in love with are, in the long run, the ones who do a decent job loving us back.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I like my chances toe to toe with just about anybody.

  

  Jake Arrieta

• There were times I'd be nervous walking home from elementary school, thinking, 'If that red tag from the power company saying our lights are turned off is on the door handle, I don't know what I'll do.'

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Home

• I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.

  

  Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • Young
  • Standing
  • Convictions

• I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant... Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Pieces

• I had a degree in economics but also thought of myself as a musician.

  

  Jon Feltheimer