J. N. Morgan Quotes

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

Most child actors go through that. Unless you can transition into an adult star, your career is over.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.

Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve---a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Hollywood people want to build you up and make you famous only to knock you off you're the pedestal they built for you.

You have to work in this business on your own terms. Don't sell out for money, fame, or notoriety.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

The odds are lousy that I actually said something attributed to me.

Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.

I'm not in Wall Street for my health.

Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

It was the single forgiving phrase in the syntax of weaponry I had strapped about me. The rest were unequivocal sentences of death.

Pretty much anything you care to imagine can happen in a fantasy, which in turn means you can really crank up the intensity of the tale you're telling.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

Can we rename [Taylor Swift] Pinocchio Swift?

It is necessary to shed old ideas, habits, opinions and even companions sometimes.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

Live every week like it's shark week.

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

You put yourself on the line as a performer, and when people reject you, it's a personal rejection.

The pain we bring to others we cannot escape ourselves.

Wine could become a place rather than a beverage.

Acting means living, it's all I do.

Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see - good or bad.

I think it's too soon. We are less than 24 hours since the polls closed, it's too soon to speculate. There's all sorts of names, I'm sure, around.

I think this is what we must not lose sight of, present a confident, positive and optimistic platform for our country's future in which this Party appeals to the centre ground of British politics.

Common integration is only the memory of differentiation.

I've got to show life as I see it.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed