J. B. Priestley Quotes

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

J. B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley

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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.

Jack Nicklaus
- Game
- Respect
- Golf
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

Edmund White
- People
- American
- Die
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

Adam Braun
Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Frances Beinecke
- Past
- Ocean
- Creating
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

Adam McKay
- World
- Weird
- Someone
For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

Patricia Briggs
- World
- Real
- Reading