Jon Foreman (Jonathan Mark Foreman) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
-
The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
-
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
-
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
-
I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
-
You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
-
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
-
Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
-
The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
-
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
-
If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
-
The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
-
We weren't One Hit Wonders. We had a few hits.
-
We are like figures which some great demonstrator draws upon the blackboard of Time. A problem is to be solved, without doubt; what the problem is, we, the figures, cannot know and do not need to know; all we know is that sooner or later we shall be sponged off the board and other figures take our places, and the demonstration go on.
-
Mentally speaking, it sucks, man. Who wants to prepare their whole life and have it all taken away by some guy who just made a bad pass? But that's the beauty of the sport as well. Anything can happen.
-
For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
-
As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.
-
Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.
-
First-round matches are always tough.
-
I think if I were to express my wish, it would be that we are more regionally self-reliant. And I don't mean people being survivalists, I mean regionally self-reliant. So that you have these individual cells. The idea of having different solutions in different areas, so that we have a very robust, durable civilization.
-
You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.
-
I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore.
-
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.
-
That's what life is, a continual state of journey. You are a river passing downstream.
