John Waterhouse Quotes

The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse [...] stuck in my mind because of the subject's flagrant health and safety violation. As any competent practitioner will tell you, you always complete your protective circle *before* you start your workings. ~ Ben Aaronovitch

I have a playlist for every mood. ~ Suki Waterhouse

On 'True Blood,' the character's name is Sookie Stackhouse, and my name is Suki Waterhouse. So, I get people saying, 'Oh, I thought we were meeting the girl from True Blood.' ~ Suki Waterhouse

I can see how a person could get addicted to the adrenaline of moviemaking. ~ Suki Waterhouse

Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones. ~ Keith Waterhouse

I've always been blonde. ~ Suki Waterhouse

When I met Julia Roberts, the only thing that came out my mouth was, 'Thank you.' ~ Suki Waterhouse

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures. ~ Suki Waterhouse

Just as London is not one endless afternoon tea, L.A. isn't all super-fit, health food-crazy freaks. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I want my clothes to be alluring but not uber sexy. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I've been banned from cutting my own fringe. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'll come down the stairs, and my parents and sister will be like, 'What are you wearing?' ~ Suki Waterhouse

I've been wearing Supergas forever. I'm always in flats, running around, so it makes sense for me. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'd like to be able to recall every J. Lo music video dance routine ever, naturally. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through. ~ Keith Waterhouse

The Met Ball is great, but isn't the best thing to just have a super fun night out with your friends? ~ Suki Waterhouse

Judging others blocks me from inner peace ~ Suki Waterhouse

I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one? ~ Suki Waterhouse

I sometimes laugh at the fact that people say I have good style. ~ Suki Waterhouse

With fashion, you go deep into a shoot for one day, but a movie lasts so much longer. It's literally like going to summer camp. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'll sit on the floor and cry if I'm having a meltdown. I don't care. ~ Suki Waterhouse

Acting is something I'm interested in, and I'll keep going to auditions, but modelling is my main job. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light. ~ Suki Waterhouse

L.A. has been a great place to dip into, but I'll always come back to London. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I like to feel comfortable. I love British brands, and I enjoy dressing in a way that makes me feel good. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'm bigger than the typical model, and I'm shorter, too. I really can't say why it's all worked for me. ~ Suki Waterhouse

When I started modeling, I was young and sort of a bit reckless - I wanted to make money and didn't really care about anything else. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I live my life in a sea of clothes. And it's fantastic to be able to use them and play with them. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'm active, but I just don't like being hungry or feeling like I've deprived myself. I want to enjoy life. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'm the eldest of four - I love my family so much. I'm crazy about them. ~ Suki Waterhouse

In reality, if there are 200 people commenting on something online, it's less than a grain of salt in a huge beach of humanity - who cares? ~ Suki Waterhouse

The greatest response to a negative person is to be a positive person ~ Suki Waterhouse

I know there are millions of people out there having just as good a time as I am. ~ Suki Waterhouse

When I was 14, I couldn't be bothered to tweeze my eyebrows, so I would shave them in between. One time, my hand slipped, and I had half an eyebrow. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I wear stuff I regret all the time. It's very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good. ~ Suki Waterhouse

Preconceived judgments. I think we're all guilty of it. I judge other people even though I get judged myself. It's such a disease and gets spread so much through social media. ~ Suki Waterhouse

The first coat I ever bought is in a plastic bag in about five pieces. It's by Sonia Rykiel. I can't wear it anymore, but I still like it. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'm the laziest person - that's my normal self. When I'm hanging around my house, I literally look like a tramp. I love being comfortable and having no make-up on. ~ Suki Waterhouse

You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'm quite strong for a girl. I studied karate growing up - I'm a brown belt - and me and my sister used to beat the crap out of each other. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I was such a tomboy when I was young. I hated girls' clothes. ~ Suki Waterhouse

Sometimes I love looking super groomed, and sometimes I like to look super weird. ~ Suki Waterhouse

The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about. ~ Keith Waterhouse

When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise. ~ Suki Waterhouse

Me and my sisters were so awful. One nanny, we loved, but we hacked her email and sent her boyfriend lots of weird messages, and we once actually locked her in the toilet, too. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I was looking at this picture of Brooke Shields at Studio 54 the other day. Everyone in the shot looks amazing because they have these black and white cameras with a flash. I think that's what photographers should go back to. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I've done karate quite a lot growing up so I did do a kind of quite long karate scene. ~ Suki Waterhouse

Being acknowledged by 'Vogue' and invited to do 'Today I'm Wearing' was a really great moment for me, and the photo diary of my outfits was a really fun thing to do. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I eat pots of honey everywhere I go. I like anything sugary. And baths. I spend five hours in the bath. I eat in the bath. ~ Suki Waterhouse

The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax. ~ Keith Waterhouse

I bought Doc Martens when I was 13, and I wore them pretty much every day until I was 20. They stank, and my dad wouldn't even let them in the house, but I was completely in love with them. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I'll sleep in my clothes sometimes. I sleep in my clothes all the time, actually - in my coat. I just hate getting changed for bed; I like the idea of falling asleep in a natural way. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I am very excited about the launch of my new collection with Superga UK. I really enjoyed creating for the brand and adding a piece of myself into the designs. I hope that everyone loves them as much as I enjoyed making them. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I rinse my hair with Coca-Cola sometimes. I don't like my hair when it's washed - it's fine and limp - but Coca-Cola makes it tousled, like I've gone through the Amazon or something. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I will do crazy skincare things in the kitchen ... I love coconut oil, so if I come home at night feeling all dry and like a fossil, I'll put my hand in a jar of coconut oil and just mush it over my face. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I've got nothing against plastic surgery at all. I know lots of people, young and old, who've had it. The point about good surgery is you can't see it. The important thing is not to go crazy - and not to go to a bad surgeon. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I don't really like going out for dinner. It's way better to not have to wait for food ... It's quite boring. I don't cook anything, though; I just transfer it from the fridge into bowls. I'm more of a transferer than a cook. ~ Suki Waterhouse

Some people can go out in a tight, short dress and heels, and it works, but even if I'm going to a club, I've got to throw on a big hoodie or something. And that's if you can get me into something tight in the first place. ~ Suki Waterhouse

When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very 'tomboy' at the time, I wasn't interested. But then I had a bit of teenage rebellion, and I saw modeling as an opportunity to get away from school and parents, so I thought, 'OK, maybe I will be a model.' ~ Suki Waterhouse

Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, Humour studies would that be, sir? ~ Keith Waterhouse

I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill. ~ Suki Waterhouse

I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face ... Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent ... but the benign remedy Vaccination saves millions of lives every century, like the [gift] of the sun, universal and everlasting.
[Remark made near the end of his life] ~ Benjamin Waterhouse

At some point, Fatio had to tear those eyes away from Eliza and begin the same sort of dance cum duel with Waterhouse. Again, if Fatio had been a fellow of the Royal Society or a doctor at some university, Waterhouse would have had some idea what to make of him. As it was, Fatio had to conjure his credentials and bona fides out of thin are, as it were, by dropping names and scattering references to books he'd read, problems he'd solved, inflated reputations he had punctured, experiments he had performed, creatures he had seen. ~ Neal Stephenson

The same kind of Diefenbachia that Grandmother Waterhouse used to have growing on the counter in her downstairs bathroom. ~ Neal Stephenson

Together we are better ~ John Paul Warren

When I first joined SAG, there was another John Reilly. My dad was John Reilly, too, but growing up I was John John. Nobody in life calls me John C. It's more like, 'Hey you, Step Brother!' ~ John C. Reilly

I would rather live short and right then long and wrong. ~ John Paul Warren

Good luck to you both. Please take care of each other, you mean a lot to me. And don't forget to write. ~ John John

They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother. ~ John Crowley

I beg your pardon? Robson says.
One thing Waterhouse likes about these Brits is that when they don't know what the hell you're talking about, they are at least open to the possibility that it might be their fault. ~ Neal Stephenson

Nobody needs saving, just a little bit of empathy ~ John O'Callaghan

I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship ~ John Paul Warren

True leaders bring out your personal best. They ignite your human potential. ~ John Paul Warren

I'm John Clare now. I was Byron and Shakespeare formerly. ~ John Clare

Men of God are not just born, they are formed ~ John Paul Warren

Photography is never real, it's merely one of many ways of telling the truth. ~ John Thai

God uses imperfect people for impossible tasks ~ John Paul Warren

Jesus conformed to our image so we could be transformed into His likeness ~ John Paul Warren

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John ... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne. ~ John Wayne

Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men ~ John Paul Warren

Love is a heart smile. ~ John Paul Warren

Live as temporal, serve as eternal ~ John Paul Warren

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete. ~ John Myhill

Pain demands to be felt. (From The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene) ~ John Greene

I love you present tense. ~ John Green

From John Vorhaus's character Vic Mirplo in The Albuquerque Turkey: Procrastinate later. ~ John Vorhaus

Get on fire for God, and people will come to watch you burn!"-John Wesley ~ John Wesley

What is the universe but a treacherous perversion of scale? ~ John Zande

They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat." – John Steinbeck ~ John Steinbeck

Creation, by its very nature, is an exercise in savage prejudices and uncommon bigotries. ~ John Zande

It is a certified kind of blindness - official, and in many diabolical ways, inescapable. ~ John Zande

Forty-three years old, and still afraid of my father. Some tycoon, hunh? ~ John Saul

Playing the guitar is all very well, John, but you'll never make a living at it. ~ John Lennon's Aunt

John Cleese ... he cannot sing and keeps a locked piano in his room to prove it. ~ John Cleese

Nothing truly wild is unclean. ~ John Muir

We got to get thinkin' about doin' stuff that means somepin. ~ John Steinbeck

Be a FRIEND and stop worrying about having any ~ John Paul Warren

Celestial light, shine inward ... that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight ~ John Milton

Does not knowing an alternative make this dangerously thin, exquisitely brutal, compulsorily homicidal fishbowl right, or good? ~ John Zande