Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Ugo Betti
John Burnside
Jack Kerouac
J. R. R. Tolkien
E. Stanley Jones
C. S. Lewis
All authors
Today's birthdays
1891 - B. R. Ambedkar
1995 - Baker Mayfield
1889 - Arnold J. Toynbee
1936 - Robert Scheer
1812 - George Grey
1955 - Binod Chaudhary
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Philosopher
President
Astronaut
Comedian
Businesswoman
Artist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quote Topics
Three Quotes
Three Quotes
Whenever someone like a plumber or a mechanic tries to explain something technical to me, I listen for about three seconds before it all just becomes white noise, like Charlie Brown's teacher.
John Niven
Teacher
Me
Noise
Mechanic
Three
Before
White
Seconds
Tries
Plumber
Charlie
About
Brown
Someone
Something
Like
Becomes
Listen
Just
Whenever
Explain
Technical
My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.
John Oliver
Journey
Daily
Me
People
Immigration
Pretending
Three
Lawyer
First
Yesterday
Ran
Months
Station
Immigrant
Out
Penn
Relief
Would
About
Had
He
Piece
Talk
Terrible
Him
Because
Said
Got
Understood
Gotten
Green
Green Card
After
Show
Help
Who
Card
Daily Show
Level
In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is, when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself.
John P. Kotter
Work
Risks
Yourself
People
Smart
Mind
Three
Experiment
Immediately
Out
Risk
More
Take
Come
Terms
Course
Least
Intelligent
Shooting
Getting
Being
Being Honest
Them
Work Out
Things
Number
Two
Number Three
Honest
At least once a year, I meet with a group called the Giving Pledge. It's a group of billionaires - including me, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and Ted Turner - who have pledged to give away most of their money to charity. We meet for three days to talk about what we're doing to help make the planet a better place to live.
John Paul DeJoria
Me
Charity
Money
Better
Three
Giving
Year
Live
Group
Meet
Once
Once A Year
Pledge
Pledged
About
Give
Better Place
Days
Most
Talk
Make
Least
Doing
Place
Turner
Planet
Bill
Bill Gates
Warren
Warren Buffett
Help
Who
Billionaires
Including
Away
Ted
Ted Turner
Gates
I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
John Perry Barlow
Love
Thought
Three
First
Those
Sight
Invented
Had
Idea
Names
Always
South
Love At First Sight
Lady
Novelists
Things
Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the country he was describing. Too bad that country exists primarily in his own head.
John Podhoretz
You
Listening
Three
Country
Own
Too
Bad
Obama
About
Triumphs
Economic
He
Head
Primarily
Over
Talk
Make
His
Years
Exists
Move
Want
Might
Describing
Why
Last
You look around the world in 2013, and you say, 'How many prime ministers or presidents are in prison?' One or two. 'How many generals or bankers?' Two or three. 'But how many writers?' 850 or so.
John Ralston Saul
You
World
Three
Prison
Presidents
Say
One Or Two
Ministers
Writers
Generals
Prime
Prime Ministers
Look
Around
How
Bankers
Many
Two
When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.
John Redwood
People
Police
Try
Three
Down
Conservatives
Nurse
Nurses
Criminals
Easier
Small
Small Businesses
Make
Clients
Always
Arrest
Want
Breathing
Teach
Teachers
Regulator
Businesses
Lives
Serve
Necks
Tony, Stacy and Jay really looked at life completely different and that played into everything that they did, whether it was skating or with their friendships. And for the three of us, we had such a close relationship off screen, that it was so easy to have that on screen.
John Robinson
Life
Relationship
Three
On-Screen
Everything
Easy
Had
Looked
Off
Close
Friendships
Close Relationship
Did
Screen
Different
Whether
Skating
Us
Really
Jay
Played
Tony
I plan on being a friend, a good leader and a good governor over these next three years.
John Rowland
Good
Three
Leader
Good Leader
Over
Years
Friend
Governor
Being
Plan
Next
Some people treat seeing me as if they just won a car on 'The Price is Right.' The feet get going, and the hands start flapping, and it's really quite amazing. It's a little scary: you can't have more than two or three of them at the same time because someone might get hurt. But it's great fun.
John Schneider
Time
Great
Me
You
Hurt
People
Treat
Amazing
Car
Some People
Three
Great Fun
Seeing
Some
Scary
Someone
More
Price
Feet
Because
Won
Than
Get
Hands
Same
Going
Quite
Just
Same Time
Little
Them
Might
Really
Fun
Right
Start
Two
I must say, to be very honest about it, that I held in my mind during the life of the Commission, that there had been three shots and that a separate shot struck Governor Connally.
John Sherman Cooper
Life
Mind
Three
Say
Must
About
Struck
Had
Been
Governor
Very
Commission
Shot
Held
Shots
Separate
Honest
Three big assumptions proved wrong: one, that the Iraqi people would welcome us as liberators; two, that oil would soon pay for Iraqi's rebuilding; and, three, that we have plenty of troops, weapons, and equipment for the postwar situation.
John Spratt
Welcome
People
Three
Big
Situation
Pay
Assumptions
Plenty
Would
Weapons
Postwar
Troops
Wrong
Soon
Equipment
Proved
Iraqi
Iraqi People
Oil
Us
Rebuilding
Two
Everything becomes connected, and cyber security becomes the top issue for CEOs. An average company has 40-60 security vendors, and they have a violation every three months with viruses.
John T. Chambers
Three
Every
Everything
Top
Viruses
Months
Security
Vendors
Becomes
Issue
CEOs
Average
Cyber
Connected
Company
Violation
I have interacted with several top leaders. Modi is among the three smartest leaders I have met.
John T. Chambers
Three
Met
Top
Several
Leaders
Smartest
Among
The music is something outside myself that's also inside myself... Music and a sense of another presence always went hand in hand. Even when I was three, I would improvise music, and my maternal grandfather would act as an audience and used to applaud. I would imitate things like thunder and rain.
John Tavener
Music
Myself
Rain
Three
Improvise
Sense
Imitate
Would
Inside
Something
Outside
Thunder
Like
Also
Another
Audience
Always
Maternal
Hand
Hand-In-Hand
Grandfather
Act
Used
Even
Applaud
Things
Presence
Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.
John Templeton
Soul
Three
Doctors
Hundred
Hundred Times
About
More
He
Knew
Know
Least
Times
Than
Did
Children
Grandfather
Much
Body
Your
Your Body
Medical
I hate to say it, but Christmas as a kid was always a moneymaking venture for me. I played trumpet, and a friend of mine who played trombone and a guy who played tuba, every Christmas we'd go out for three or four days beforehand and play Christmas carols on our horns.
John Tesh
Christmas
Me
Hate
Three
Every
Our
Mine
Say
Kid
Out
Horns
Guy
Trombone
Days
Venture
Always
Go
Trumpet
Beforehand
Friend
Tuba
Who
Play
Moneymaking
Four
Played
I was really raised by three women - my mom, and I have two older sisters, one nine years and one 11 years older - so I'm happy to have that many women in the house.
John Tesh
Mom
Happy
Women
Three
Older
Nine
House
Years
Sisters
Really
Many
Raised
Two
We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.
John Thaw
Work
Day
Three
Action
Scene
Morse
Wrong
Know
Said
Still
Were
Camera
Times
Using
Film
Start
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
John Travolta
You
Entertainment
Sports
World
Three
Magnitude
Exciting
Most
Dealing
Same
Aviation
Professions
It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
John Walters
Dangerous
Problems
Three
Become
Past
Difficult
Our
Borders
More
Over
Real
Smuggle
Years
Real Problems
Substances
Much
Creating
Across
We need to educate Americans about the real harms of marijuana if we want to sustain the gains we've made over the past three years.
John Walters
Made
Three
Past
About
Over
Real
Educate
Years
American
Sustain
Want
Gains
Need
I've been an art collector since the Sixties, and I kept it very separate from my showbusiness career. I've had art shows since the early Nineties, a museum show that travelled to four countries. I've had three or four art books; it's just another way I have to tell stories.
John Waters
Art
Three
Books
Way
Nineties
Tell
Collector
Had
Countries
Since
Another
Another Way
Been
Very
Just
Sixties
Stories
Separate
Show
Shows
Travelled
Four
Early
Career
Kept
Museum
I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.
John Zorn
Work
People
Phone
Three
Own
Our
Out
About
Make
Line
Office
Dedicated
Even
Homes
Two
There are three types of pitchers you have to deal with. Some, you just have to tell what town they're in, remind them where they are. Some, you remind them about mechanics, and some, you have to bust their tail. You have to make them your friend and have them trust you.
Johnny Bench
You
Trust
Three
Types
Tell
Some
About
Tail
Remind
Town
Make
Deal
Friend
Pitchers
Just
Where
Them
Your
Mechanics
Bust
Load more quotes
No more three quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try another of these similiar topics.
Able
About
Always
Am