I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.
John Wooden
Recitation: by Male by Female
Well, I don't know if this is true of everyone, but I have this relationship with my parents where, despite however mature or articulate or grown-up I think I've become, as soon as I go home, I turn into this petulant 13-year-old, especially with the tone of my voice.
Jenna Fischer
HomeRelationshipParentsThinkKnow
You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded.
John Trudell
PeopleConstitutionRestIndependence
In 1984, when 'Nightmare on Elm Street' came out, not only was I twelve and couldn't get into an R movie, but I lived twenty miles from a theater. So my first experience of it was on VHS.
Stephen Graham Jones
ExperienceStreetFirstOutLived
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
Steven Moffat
GoodPeopleWritingBrandEasyYou
I never thought acting would be a realistic job for me. Because, quite frankly, I didn't see people who looked like me doing it. I quickly realized, that's all the more reason to try.
Riz Ahmed
JobPeopleMeThoughtDoingActing
The vision of the human being is confined today to the physical body. One regards this as a reality; one cannot raise oneself to what is spiritual. The souls who now look upon their own physical bodies with their eyes, and are unable to rise to what is spiritual, were incarnated among earlier peoples as Greeks, as Romans, and as ancient Egyptians.
Rudolf Steiner
TodayVisionEyesSpiritualReality
I was proud of my Soviet country, of wearing Young Pioneer uniform, bombarded by my mother's Communist propaganda.
Roustam Tariko
MotherProudCountryUniformYoung
Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.
Mike Myers
LifeWisdomAcceptOwnGotSome
The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
Luc de Clapiers
FruitLaborPleasuresSweetest
I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.
Joseph DeRisi
WorkCaliforniaRisingUniversity
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.
Sylvia Plath
GreatPoetryVictoryGrowingOver
Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
Sean Connery
HeadScotlandOnlyPercentCompanies
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by John Wooden