Patrick McGoohan Quotes

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

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• Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Trying
  • Me
  • Car

• Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Marriage
  • Moral
  • Morality

• I don't get bothered by fans.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Fans
  • Get
  • Bothered

• There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Living
  • Europe
  • Australia

• Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Fun
  • Laughter
  • Healing

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

  

  Maimonides
  • World
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Selfish

• The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Said

• Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Character
  • Man
  • Moment

• I don't think I can name any names or anything, but this is what I've wanted to do for a long time: to have Flume as my creative outlet and to work on the biggest songs in the world, like pop, and come up with the idea and send it off.

  

  Flume
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Trying
  • Name
  • Texas

• My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Good
  • Movie

• If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Good
  • Smelling
  • Splurge

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.

  

  OMI
  • Song
  • Quality
  • Meaningful

• The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• God hears a mother's prayer.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • God
  • Mother
  • Prayer

• Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gold

• I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • World
  • Game
  • Man

• Like a lovely flower full of color but lacking in fragrance, are the words of those who do not practice what they teach.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Teach
  • Flower
  • Fragrance

• All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • May
  • Hope
  • Questions

• I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Questions

• Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Answers
  • Questions
  • Prison