Jonathan King Quotes

If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

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• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Politics
  • Interested
  • Did

• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Walk
  • Feel Good

• In establishing democracy, we have to be sensitive to the regional and national context. Democracy also means to guarantee the rights of the minorities. That's my job as a king. We have for example a Jewish ambassador in the US and a Christian in the UK.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Job
  • Christian
  • Democracy

• I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Culture
  • Religion
  • Unique

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • Said
  • Eating
  • Too Much

• Those who are greatly occupied in physical or material matters lack sufficient knowledge or have only superficial understanding of spiritual matters. Therefore, such people's opinions and judgments concerning spiritual matters carry no weight.

  

  Said Nursi
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

  

  Vanity
  • Career
  • Singing
  • Chance

• Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fun

• Protect yourself like you would your cubs - as a grown woman, you're no one's cub anymore.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • You
  • Woman
  • Yourself

• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Right
  • Define
  • Imperative

• Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Book
  • Baby
  • Genuine

• Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Why
  • Perception
  • Lawyer

• English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Good
  • Great
  • School

• We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Lucky

• Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • School
  • Career
  • Law

• Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Happiness

• On my 100th birthday, piloting Gordon and myself into the side of a mountain.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mountain
  • Birthday

• Every fan interaction I have when someone tells me they can look to their television screens and see themselves reflected in me is a dream come true.

  

  Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
  • True
  • Dream

• What I'm hearing, which is sort of scary, is they the Hurricane Katrina refugees in the Houston Astrodome all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • People
  • Scary
  • Texas

• When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Why
  • Player
  • Theatre

• You need to set a tone at the top that inspires trust - and encourages open and honest 2-way communication. So you hear the brutal facts, and you listen to the good news and the bad news - so that, in the spirit of continuous improvement, you can make changes.

  

  Denise Morrison
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Trust

• If you find someone attractive, you try to make them find you attractive. That is called seduction. And seduction is a bit ugly. You could say it's a bit ugly to use your charisma.

  

  Jonathan King
  • Ugly
  • Seduction