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

• In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.

  

  Michael Gove
  • Team
  • Helping
  • Leaving

• You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

  

  Polly Bergen
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Taken

• Even a baby will fight for its life in the womb, won't you fight for your life?! Won't you recognize who these scum are?!

  

  Alex Jones
  • Life
  • Fight
  • Recognize

• I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Good
  • Player
  • Baseball

• For me, everything is a performance.

  

  Christine and the Queens
  • Everything
  • Performance

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

  

  Jon Lord