Joshua Logan Quotes

I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

Joshua Logan

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• Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Attitude
  • Morality

• The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Bad
  • Respect
  • Government

• It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Animal
  • More
  • Really

• If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Job

• It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Long
  • Now

• Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

  

  Gary Becker
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Truth

• Huir el rostro al claro desengaño,beber veneno por licor süave,olvidar el provecho, amar el daño;creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe,dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño;esto es amor. Quien lo probó lo sabe.

  

  Lope de Vega

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women

• The world has so much suffering in it already-choosing to be vegetarian is one thing you can do to reduce the suffering on a daily basis.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Daily

• The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

  

  Avery Brundage
  • People
  • Education
  • Sports

• I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

  

  Sheryl Crow

• My main aim is to change our perception of how we look at vegetables because I think vegetables have always been put on the side - it's always been your steamed broccoli or boiled broccoli with your meat.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Perception

• It's always nice working with friends. And if you have a director that you've worked with before, you don't have to go through that first learning thing. There's an element of trust there.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • Friends
  • Nice
  • Learning

• The key word about The West Wing is show. It is not a reality show. It has nothing to do with reality.

  

  Martin Sheen
  • Reality

• I've never been on a water slide in my life.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • Life
  • Water

• Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • Long
  • Book

• I think time and time again, in reality, psychological notions and economic notions interplay, and the man who doesn't understand both is a damned fool.

  

  Charlie Munger
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Fool

• The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.

  

  W. W. Dumas
  • Art
  • City
  • Insurance

• I learned how to cook, began reading books on food. I began to understand about nutrition. It never had occurred to me that what you ate could affect how you felt. It could affect your health. It seems obvious now, but at age 23 or 22 or whatever I was, it wasn't obvious at all.

  

  John Mackey
  • Age
  • Food
  • Reading

• I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Together
  • Cooking
  • Consistency

• The spread of personal ownership is in harmony with the deepest instincts of the British people. Few changes have done more to create one nation.

  

  Nigel Lawson
  • Harmony
  • Nations
  • Instinct

• I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.

  

  Joshua Logan
  • Reality
  • Wish
  • Defeat