Francis Chan Quotes

Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

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• When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Money
  • Day
  • Start

• The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Job
  • Friend

• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • People
  • Character
  • Opinion

• I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I wasn't very good at it. Now I spend most of my time drawing pictures and looking at funny things on the Internet, which in retrospect is largely what I did at my old job, too.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Outside

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• 'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Nice
  • Tennis
  • Saying

• Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • You
  • Way
  • Care

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Character
  • Names
  • Places

• I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Book
  • Never
  • Really

• I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Support
  • Woman
  • Smart

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Country
  • War
  • Freedom

• Principal Skinner's kitchen catches on fire in the middle of dinner with Superintendant Chalmers

  

  Aurora
  • Fire
  • Kitchen

• I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

  

  Donna Reed

• Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Done
  • Bad

• I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.

  

  Alfonso Cuaron
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Learning

• If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

  

  Katie Price
  • Business

• We've enshrined the purity, sanctity, value, and importance of bringing children into the world, yet we don't discuss death. There used to be an enshrined period where mourning was a necessary part of going through the process of grieving; death wasn't considered morbid or antisocial. But that's totally gone.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • World
  • Children
  • Death

• Than smoke and mist who better could appraise The kindred spirit of an inner haze?

  

  Robert Frost
  • Spirit
  • Smoke
  • Mist

• The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows.

  

  Barbara Wood
  • Flowers
  • Diamond
  • Widows

• I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

  

  Conrad Sewell
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'

  

  Francis Chan
  • Church
  • Spirit
  • Heard