1432 Jon Quotes

#1. You should get as close to the power when you're pitching something. I got my two biggest breaks with the man who owned CBS and the guy that owned Paramount, because I was dealing with the guy who would say yes or no.

Albert S. Ruddy

#2. Just as I was beginning my drift into unconsciousness, there was an explosion. Not a movie explosion but a small real-life explosion, like the ignition of an unhappy gas oven that holds a grudge against its owner.

Andrew Davidson

#3. It was always sad, the way the world was going. And always a new age dawning.

Elizabeth Strout

#4. When I began work on my first book, 'The River of Doubt,' which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelt's 1914 descent of an unmapped river in the Amazon rainforest, I thought of it as a tale of adventure, exploration and extraordinary courage.

Candice Millard

#5. That's one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself...

Sylvia Plath

#6. We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Ugo Betti

#7. It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

Ann Leckie

#8. A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#9. I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!

Alexander Herrmann

#10. Follow your heart, but check it with your head.

Steve Jobs

#11. Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#12. A film has to be like a stone in the shoe.

Lars Von Trier

#13. And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong.

Joanna Cannon

#14. I believe in God ... just in case. It's like there's some list somewhere and you don't want to be on it. I don't want to say THERE'S NO GOD! and then die and say, Oh, Hi ... Is there some kind of community service I can do?

Marc Maron

#15. My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.

John Henrik Clarke