John Popper Quotes

I was a bleeding-heart liberal, until I got a job.

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• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Black
  • Reading

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.

  

  Callum McDougall
  • Music
  • Control
  • Government

• Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Job
  • Me

• India has large proven reserves of gas that remain unexploited.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • India
  • Remain
  • Gas

• The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from that, I get a lot of ideas of how the film could be made, how it could be told.

  

  Garth Davis
  • World
  • Work
  • Character

• History, geography and future bind us. Let no one separate us. Together, we can create pillars of mutual respect that will support the common good for generations to come.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Good
  • History
  • Together

• I well recall my emotions when I came upon the grave of Beethoven in the Central Friedhof, with its incomparable guard of honor - Mozart, Schubert, Gluck, Brahms, Hugo Wolf and Johann Strauss!

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Honor
  • Wolf

• To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Truth
  • House
  • Fire

• Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. Now you would have me explain the miracles of Jesus. We are all the miraculous gesture of the moment; our Lord and Master was the centre of that moment. Yet it was not in His desire that His gestures be known.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • House
  • Desire
  • Jesus

• These left me in no doubt that something was trying to communicate with us, but that direct communication would be counterproductive. It seemed to be an important part of the scheme to create a sense of mystery.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Doubt

• Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • She
  • Mother

• I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Energy

• I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Weird

• The chances of anyone of any race getting their own show are, like, .001 percent.

  

  Cristela Alonzo

• What you can't buy is the loyalty that comes through our dedicated crewmembers.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Loyalty

• I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.

  

  Dayton Callie

• I do not believe it is all about the leader. I think it's about the team, too. So we have one mission; we have one team; we are working to victory.

  

  David Cunliffe
  • Believe
  • Team
  • Victory

• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.

  

  Jim Harrison
  • Country
  • Family
  • Rest

• I never got a chance to be a teenager.

  

  Agnes Bruckner
  • Teenager

• All is well with me. The rain doesn't reach me, my room is well heated, what more can one ask for? There's no shortage of work, either.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Work
  • Rain
  • Ask

• I was a bleeding-heart liberal, until I got a job.

  

  John Popper
  • Heart
  • Jobs
  • Bleeding