Freya Stark Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
-
I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
-
I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
-
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
-
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
-
Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
-
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
-
I hate the way chorus boxes sound.
-
Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
-
Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
-
I made my money in an honest way. And I have declared it all. By co-founding Infosys along with Mr. Murthy and others, I earned financially.
-
Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
-
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
-
I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
-
My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
-
All labels are offensive in some way.
-
I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
-
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.
-
DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.
-
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we usually call it "commercial capitalism." In such a system goods are conveyed from ares where they are more common (and therefore cheaper) to areas where they are less common (and therefore less cheap). This process leads to regional specialization and to division of labor, both in agricultural production and in handicrafts.
-
Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
-
My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted.
-
Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
