Michael Lindsay-Hogg (Sir Michael Edward Lindsay-Hogg) Quotes

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

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• The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • World
  • Challenges
  • Source

• America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Long
  • America
  • Eyes

• I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Want
  • Child

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Ideas

• In trying to scramble out of a hole, it sometimes digs it deeper.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Hole

• I guess I'm a good manager now. Moreover, I'm loving the concept of donning the producer's hat. It's all very exciting as well as a great learning experience. You're a part of a film right from its conception to its execution, and that's an amazing feeling.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Experience

• I am not in a position to be accurate on news analysis. But what I firmly believe is that Iranian President Rouhani and the government have committed themselves to a process. I don't think this process is about changing the principles of the Islamic republic, but it is about accepting a certain path of opening in the political and economic fields.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • Political
  • Path
  • Economic

• I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • People
  • Think
  • Garbage

• I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Home
  • Listen
  • Liking

• I'm a Canadian who can't vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both - and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Country
  • Politics
  • Media

• I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Habit
  • Afraid

• My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an eye on it, and make sure it isn't abused, and obviously be thoughtful about it, because it's all real to me. I'm basically in every band I ever was in, and the songs, I still mean them all.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Real
  • Done
  • Respect

• My two essential ingredients are chilies, any kind, dried or fresh; and acid, whether it's citrus - lemon, lime, yuzu - or vinegars. Food has to pop.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Food

• After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • Job

• Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

  

  James Truslow Adams
  • Age
  • Value
  • Discipline

• I think what makes a good show is obviously a rabid fan base.

  

  Jim Rash
  • Good

• I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • World
  • Patience

• The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

  

  Maximilien Robespierre
  • Society

• I exercise at least five times a week with stretching, Pilates, push-ups, planks, sit- ups, squats and light weights.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Light
  • Exercise

• I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

  

  Len Wein
  • Leave
  • Room
  • Violate

• 'I fly from pleasure,' said the prince, 'because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Fly
  • Lonely
  • Prince

• Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

  

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg
  • World
  • Kind
  • Imagination