John Malcolm Quotes

#1. Sophia, with real nobility of character, then asked Papa to explain something she had read in Sir John Malcolm's History of Persia, which the Vicar, whose only personal extravagance was his purchase of books, had lately added to his library.

Georgette Heyer

#2. Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad's message made a whole lot of people feel whole again, human being again. Some of them came out and found a new meaning to their manhood and their womanhood.

John Henrik Clarke

#3. All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.

John Henrik Clarke

#4. Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

B.C. Forbes

#5. Doc has been my name all my life, and John is my middle name. I'm proud of all my names - Malcolm John Michael Creaux Rebennack. I'm proud of them names.

Dr. John

#6. The impulse that led you to make an image is a thing that you cannot share with anyone, even if you explain it. What remains is a surface that will live its own life, that will belong to everybody. I accept that surface.

Jeanloup Sieff

#7. The best bribe which London offers to-day to the imagination, is, that, in such a vast variety of people and conditions, one can believe there is room for persons of romantic character to exist, and that the poet, the mystic, and the hero may hope to confront their counterparts.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame.

Amber Heard

#9. Your problem + It Could Be Worse = Gratitude
In all that you are going through learn to put
IT COULD BE WORSE at the end of your problems. You will start leaving a brighter and happier life ... when you do.

Timothy Pina

#10. My influences in this world have always been Crazy Horse and Malcolm X, my overall influences. But I was influenced by rock n' roll, blues, and country music. I was influenced by singers.

John Trudell

#11. Do Your Best Work

Malcolm X

#12. (Her husband's departure ... ) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.
From Butterfly on F street

Edward P. Jones

#13. John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

Malcolm Allison

#14. Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#15. I never worked with a stinker.
How great is that!

Mitzi Gaynor

#16. A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have any ideas about how we're going to handle that task?"
"Simple," Halt told him. "We'll surround them.

John Flanagan

#17. We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.

Lauro Cavazos

#18. Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.

Cliff Stearns

#19. Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

John Henrik Clarke

#20. President John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 CST today, here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound to the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.

Malcolm Kilduff

#21. I don't need you to tell me I'm not well, though I don't really know what's wrong with me; I think I'm five times healthier than you are.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. Laws are made against the impulse a people most fears in itself. Do not kill was the Shing's vaunted single Law. All else was permitted: which meant, perhaps, there was little else they really wanted to do ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#23. Leaders learn more from blames than praises. Praises make them know what's already done well; blames show them what's yet to be done well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. In cyberspace things are built out of light.

Terence McKenna

#25. If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

Ellen Malcolm