Bill Buford Quotes

The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

Bill Buford

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• Feeling
• Animal
• Sky
• Rain
• River
• Plant
• Forest

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• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Long
  • Think

• I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • You
  • Audience

• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Age
  • Army

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• No man fails who does his best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Fails

• Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • You
  • Something
  • Naughty

• When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • God
  • Wish
  • Study

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• I was 19 when I discovered Pilates, and I'm still doing it. It's the workout my body really responds to. It's all about alignment, elongating your spine, and strengthening your core. It makes me feel my strongest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Me
  • Body
  • Doing

• After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Brain

• Never should an unfamiliar word be passed over without elucidation, for, with a little conscientious research, we may each day add to our conquests in the realm of philology and become more and more ready for graceful independent expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Day
  • Independent

• The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Up
  • Done
  • Past

• Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

  

  Sacha Guitry
  • Love
  • Better
  • For Her

• I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Support
  • Woman
  • Smart

• Having a purpose and knowing exactly what your values are will add additional years to your life.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Values

• I feel God has sent me to Earth to sing. I started singing when I was five, but I don't think I've worked as hard as many other people.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • God
  • Earth

• Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • God
  • Earth

• I have always needed other musicians to bounce off.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac

• Film is like a drug. It is a shelter when you cannot deal with reality.

  

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Reality
  • Film
  • Drug

• There never has been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented ... The common man, I think, is the great protection against war.

  

  Ernest Bevin
  • War
  • Protection
  • Folk

• The Rio de Contas, a wide, almost delta-like river, was startling, a sudden big sky and a feeling of openness, and very bright. It was noisy with birds. The rain forest houses most of the earth's plant and animal population. I hadn't anticipated it would be so loud.

  

  Bill Buford
  • Earth
  • Feeling
  • Animal