John Lithgow Quotes

When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.

John Lithgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1945

Topics

SchoolAccomplishmentThinkRemember

There are a lot of problems in this country having to do with permissiveness.

Jim Inhofe

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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.

Michael Behe

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We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy - the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town.

Stephen Vincent Benet

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In high school, I had a much easier time interacting with adults than with my peers.

Rumer Willis

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I still remember the days, not wanting to see anybody, not wanting to talk to anybody, really not wanting to live. I was on an express elevator to the bottom floor, wherever that might be.

Michael Phelps

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Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.

Jules Verne

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People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?

Jason Bateman

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We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more.

Johnny Knoxville

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The bottom line is that sometimes the little things I do on the pitch provoke exaggerated reactions.

Diego Costa

Little ThingsSometimesLineLittle

When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. You know, when people talk about the British Empire, they always forget that all the European countries had empires.

Doris Lessing

GirlPeopleEndYouKnowForget

I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.

Debi Mazar

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I've always been someone who really watches other people, human behavior. To watch it and be able to express it through your version has always been really exciting to me.

Christina Hendricks

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