John Barrowman Quotes

My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

John Barrowman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 11, 1967

Topics

WorkWork EthicAmericaSayHumour

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.

Jim Costa

LimitsWeekLongExplorationOil

I don't leave a room unless I leave a smile. I want to leave them laughing.

Jenifer Lewis

SmileWantLeaveRoomLaughingThem

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

Robert Fulghum

SeaLonelinessSolitudeBoatSame

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

Ron Silver

PeopleThinkLanguageYouBody

My son craves picture books about Transformers and Ninja Turtles and the Hulk; they show one fantastic creature smashing or zapping another into smithereens on page after page. They are dull and ugly and show no interesting stories or models of conflict resolution or character building.

Russell Smith

SonCharacterUglyConflictBuilding

I'd always been the confident guy in school. I was good in math and English, but I was still shy. I couldn't get up and speak in front of people. I was asked to do it when I was 10 years old and I burst out crying.

Chris Vance

GoodSchoolPeopleSpeakConfident

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

ManMysteriousMoreHimExistence

One of the things about incarceration is that you're deprived. You lose all of your identity, and then its given back one day, and you're ill-equipped to actually embrace it and work it.

Susan Burton

WorkDayIdentityYouLoseBack

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

Penn Jillette

GovernmentTeaSmallPartyWant

Film is a game of projections upon projections, and the projected image on the screen is a game of light and shadows. There is nothing there; it is the brain that is decoding those things. The film doesn't have any decipherable kind of meaning if it's not seen.

Sebastian Lelio

LightBrainGameMeaningShadows

New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a national security liability.

Liam Fox

GovernmentMistakeSecurityNewMost

Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.

Leo Rosten

CommunicationGodMeMouthWhyTalk

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