Top 40 John Anthony Quotes
#1. Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
Stephen Vizinczey
#2. No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is no exaggeration to suggest that they would tear apart the entire fabric of society and, particularly at a time of war, this is something I cannot risk.
Anthony Horowitz
#3. It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.
Anthony Michael Hall
#4. I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. I've had the great privilege of working with Sir Derek Jacobi and Sir Anthony Hopkins. These are people who inspire the work that I do.
Kenneth Branagh
#5. My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director.
Cole Porter
#6. John Kenneth Galbraith and Marshall McLuhan are the two greatest modern Canadians that the U.S. has produced.
Anthony Burgess
#7. I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.
Gina Gershon
#8. We create our work for children not because they're "cute," but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.
Mo Willems
#9. Going to Catholic school was what fueled me into comedy. The nuns were so brutal so I used to try to make my friends laugh.
Julie Brown
#10. When Quiggin ingratiated himself with people - during his days as secretary to St. John Clarke, for example - he was far too shrewd to confine himself to mere flattery. A modicum of bullying was a pleasure both to himself and his patrons.
Anthony Powell
#11. It's a well-known fact that hate shows up on your face once you're forty.
Gabrielle Zevin
#12. Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.
John Anthony West
#13. In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
Anthony Michael Hall
#14. [To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.
Anthony John Patrick Kenny
#15. We're obliged to acknowledge the limits of reason; and to acknowledge the necessary reality of the realms to which reason has no access.
John Anthony West
#16. Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).
Matthea Harvey
#17. In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.
John Lescroart
#18. Sometimes I get a little manic and you can't stop me. I'm all over the place. I have fun.
Dom DeLuise
#20. Since boyhood, the sandy coast of Southern California with its mazes of rocky crags towering high above the Pacific had been Gower Champion's refuge for reflection.
John Anthony Gilvey
#21. To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
Miguel De Unamuno
#22. I distrust those people who knew so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. Susan D. Anthony
John Ortberg
#23. Don't act your age in retirement. Act like the inner young person you have always been.
John Anthony West
#24. It was good of you to look for Quentin." "Good!" she exclaimed. "Good! O Anthony!" "Well, so it was," he answered. "Or good in you. How accurate one has to be with one's prepositions! Perhaps it was a preposition wrong that set the whole world awry." CHARLES WILLIAMS The Place of the Lion
John Piper
#25. My entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write.
Jillian Medoff
#26. I know I'm in the band and everything but sometimes I just have to rock out to the John Frusciante Experience
Anthony Kiedis
#27. A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.
Anthony John Patrick Kenny
#30. Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#32. What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?
John Anthony West
#33. Its a matter of time that the money I make become a financial cake that I could eat everyday.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#34. I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.
Ian Rankin
#35. One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.
Kevin Allen
#36. After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer."
There was a gasp of horror from the crowd.
Duncan, smiling thinly, said through gritted teeth: "Thank you so much for reminding us all, Anthony.
John Flanagan
#37. The whole world is simply nothing more than a flow chart for capital.
Paul Tudor Jones
#38. (John Bold said): If an action is the right one, personal feelings must not be allowed to interfere. Of course I greatly like Mr Harding, but that is no reason for failing in my duty to those old men.
Anthony Trollope
#39. Technology is too crazy for me, but I would be very happy when they make phone that can cook.
Patricia Dunn
#40. Acting is about listening and reacting. John Wayne was right: Acting is just reacting. You don't have to do much - as long as you stay out of the way of others. That's why it works.
Anthony Hopkins
