Jonathan Swift Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.
T. B. Joshua
-
I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
Larry Wilmore
-
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
-
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
Samuel L. Jackson
-
My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
Dana Perino
-
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett
-
It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
Hans Hofmann
-
There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
Barbara Sukowa
-
I'm kind of an antsy person.
Laura Schlessinger
-
I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
A. R. Rahman
-
From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
Warren Spector
-
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
Cal Ripken, Jr.
-
I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
Becki Newton
-
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
Aaron McGruder
-
When caught in the clutches of a predator, the jelly produces a light display that is a pinwheel of light that is basically a call for help. It serves to attract the attention of a larger predator that may attack their attacker, thereby affording them an opportunity for escape.
Edith Widder
-
I've just always been a bit of a dork.
Nate Silver
-
The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
Madeleine M. Kunin
-
When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
J. August Richards
-
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
-
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
Macy Gray
-
Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
Brown Campbell
-
Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
R. C. Sproul
-
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift