Joseph M. Kyrillos Quotes

People need to heed the message of Chris Christie and get the job done. We don't want the last century, America's century, to be a historical accident.

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• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Time
  • Like
  • Arts

• The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Successful

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
  • Career

• Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Hand
  • Go
  • Ecology

• In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • American
  • India

• When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • America
  • Pretty

• I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Music
  • Live
  • Day

• I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • School
  • Dream

• I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Children
  • True
  • Happiness

• 'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Women
  • Childhood
  • Wishes

• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  

  Ovid
  • Born
  • Praise
  • Ancient

• 'Well, what are you doing? What have you done?' 'I am sitting in this char,' said Poirot. 'Thinking,' he added. 'Is that all?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'It is the important thing,' said Poirot.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Done

• I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Superman

• I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• You've got to keep an open mind.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • Mind

• I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

  

  Bob Woodward
  • People
  • Food
  • Serious

• God saved my life.

  

  Brady Jandreau
  • Life
  • God

• …the threshold between the hospital and its outside was like a threshold between worlds, between media.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Media
  • Hospital

• The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • America
  • Nature
  • Future

• 'Brokeback Mountain' takes all your conceptions of America, and the Western, and cowboys, and sexuality, and love, and it stirs them all up.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Up
  • America
  • Mountain

• People need to heed the message of Chris Christie and get the job done. We don't want the last century, America's century, to be a historical accident.

  

  Joseph M. Kyrillos
  • America
  • Message
  • Century