Oliver Cowdery Quotes

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

Oliver Cowdery

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• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Friends
  • Loved
  • Personal

• Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Common

• I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Think
  • Curious

• My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Dumb

• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Love
  • Success

• Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Work
  • Love
  • Bad

• I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Peace

• Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Time
  • Different
  • Together

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Money
  • Age
  • Small

• I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

  

  Warren Spector
  • People
  • Think
  • Winner

• Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Ideas
  • Grow

• Consult duty not events.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Duty
  • Events
  • Consult

• I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I wasn't ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Team
  • Baseball

• I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Loving
  • Temper
  • Temperamental

• Experience by itself teaches nothing...Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Experience
  • Learning

• I think transitions are never that noticeable, but they are always on their way. It has to do with distance and accessibility. People call it mellowing, but I think it's how available you are toward other people, or how much you distance yourself.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Way
  • Distance
  • Transition

• I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.

  

  Alexander Payne
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Space

• Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Law
  • Forever
  • Creative

• Writing is still my main career, but I would love, for instance, to serve in the New York State Assembly.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Writing
  • Career

• I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

  

  Oliver Cowdery