J. B. Priestley Quotes

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

J. B. Priestley

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• When I was first elected I got 50% of the vote in '77 in the general election. In '81 I got 75%. In '85, I got 78%. No mayor has ever gotten that high a vote. So it was not an issue. Except for people who were very hostile to me. They thought they would injure me.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • High
  • Me

• I don't know, a lot of people go crazy about 'Breaking Bad,' but I don't like the soap opera aspect of it and only following one character. I like the context to all of it, all the pieces, like 'The Wire.' It's more about the state of things; it's not about the narrative of a person.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Character
  • Bad

• In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Free
  • Day

• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Working Hard

• There really aren't any completely Asian people singing right now.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • People
  • Singing
  • Now

• The majority of ground in the U.S. is owned by the federal government, and right now, very little of it is accessible to anybody that is trying to produce oil and gas, and we need to be opening that up.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Government

• Monks throng like a kennel of pups from disputing with the masters who instruct them whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour.

  

  Taliesin
  • Fire
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• At night the sea is very loud,And voices ride the tide.At another time, in another place,Beneath the silent moon,We laughed together.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Night

• Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Wife

• Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Words

• Every wishIs like a prayer-with God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • God
  • Prayer

• Our little visitor has just left us, and left us highly pleased with her; she is a nice, natural, open-hearted, affectionate girl, with all the ready civility which one sees in the best children in the present day; so unlike anything that I was myself at her age, that I am often all astonishment and shame.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Children
  • She
  • Age

• The biggest laugh has to come at the end .

  

  Jerry Seinfeld

• No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

  

  Elizabeth Kostova
  • Book
  • Purpose

• I'm terrified of heights, but I think there's something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird's-eye view of the world.

  

  Lindy Booth
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Bird

• There's definitely been some songs in the past that we've put out, and it was purely us going, 'Okay, we think radio will play this. We think this will be a hit. This will be big for the show,' and all this stuff. But it's like, do you really believe in it?

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Believe
  • Past

• Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

  

  Michael O'Leary
  • Fly
  • Computer
  • Pilot

• Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so Im going to actually start working on my own.

  

  Joseph Mazzello
  • Acting
  • Working
  • Own

• Problems can be handled in a few different ways, including wood piles to support the school or trucking in compacted fill, which is a combination of sand or stone to support the structure. We chose wood piles to support the school.

  

  Ed Vargo
  • School
  • Support
  • Problems

• What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Women
  • Care
  • Unemployment

• I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.

  

  Valerie June
  • People
  • Prayer

• Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

  

  J. B. Priestley