Jon Lord Quotes

Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

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• First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Singing

• I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Man
  • Boy
  • Before

• I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Optimist

• I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Losing

• Advertising is the life of trade.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Trade
  • Advertising

• Safeco Field is a lot like a National League park. Because of that, we're more of a pitching-defensive type club. Anaheim and Oakland - and even Texas - are more offensive oriented. We're a club that doesn't blow anybody out, but at the same time we don't get blown out much. We're in most of the games.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Time
  • Same
  • Blow

• Ghostery lets you spy on the spies in your computer. For each web page you visit, this extension uncloaks some - but not all - of the invisible tracking software that is working behind the scenes.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • You
  • Software
  • Page

• The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Home
  • City

• Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Life
  • Women
  • Poetry

• I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Reading
  • Dying

• When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

  

  Taylor Handley
  • People
  • Fun
  • You

• I'm a go-hard type. It's in my DNA. I physically prepare my body as if I'm a trained athlete. After the shows, I sit in an ice tub and do a hot dip, cold dip, and sometimes I sit in a hyperbaric chamber to rejuvenate my energy.

  

  Usher
  • Energy
  • Body
  • Cold

• Horrea formicae tendunt ad inania numquam:nullus ad amissas ibit amicus opes.

  

  Ovid

• The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.

  

  P. L. Travers

• I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Daughter
  • Waves

• Your mind is all you truly have.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Mind

• Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Attention
  • Understanding

• Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Truth
  • Faith

• Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Soul
  • My Life
  • Shadows

• I keep letting you back in,how can I explain myself,as painful as this thing has been,I just can't be with no one else.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Myself
  • Thing
  • Back

• Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

  

  Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Men
  • Parents
  • Prayer

• When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

  

  Leigh Steinberg
  • Age
  • Future
  • Football

• If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Treasure
  • Bottles
  • Bank Notes

• Working against a restriction - for me - often produces greater things than getting rid of all boundaries.

  

  Jon Lord