Quentin L. Cook Quotes

Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

Quentin L. Cook

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• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • People
  • Know
  • Look

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Book
  • Said
  • Blind

• I don't need to impress children.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Children
  • Need
  • Impress

• I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Man
  • Enough
  • Human

• Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Why
  • Want
  • Acting

• You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • You
  • Saying

• The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Gentleman
  • Pursuit
  • Unspeakable

• Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to get attention we do, except walk?

  

  Alice Walker
  • Trying
  • Attention
  • Dance

• The same way we can send and receive an email with anyone, anywhere, for free, or we can share a photo with anyone instantly for free, money will become these digital tokens, and we'll be able to do that with money.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Money
  • Free

• An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.

  

  Bill Klem
  • Player
  • Walking
  • Angry

• When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • Different
  • Done
  • Strong

• When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill
  • People
  • Relationship

• The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.

  

  Lee Siegel
  • American

• I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.

  

  David Sanborn
  • Music
  • Different
  • Country

• I think there's so many actors out there that we see and we know as one thing but are capable of so much more.

  

  Jesse Lee Soffer

• If I had my way, I'd end all wars and poverty. We should all be more aware of what's going on in the world around us and less ignorant.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • World
  • Poverty

• We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • World
  • Better
  • Compromise

• Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • True
  • Habit

• I like to do my own make-up.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Like
  • Own

• Genesis 9 is where the animals went wild, and God gave them wildness. After the flood, that's when he made animals wild. Up until that time, everybody was vegetarian.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Temporary setbacks are overshadowed by persistence.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • Persistence