Freya Stark Quotes

The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

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• I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Winning
  • Look

• I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Couple

• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Nice
  • Crazy
  • Swimming

• I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Live
  • Sleep
  • Library

• I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Competition
  • Tough

• I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Life
  • May
  • Remember

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Diary

• I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Up
  • Fear
  • Thought

• We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Option
  • Credit
  • Calling

• Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• I'm learning to play by the rules. I sort of hate to think of it that way, but that's how it is. I'm really learning to function out there and in such a way that I don't need to drink.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Hate
  • Learning
  • Rules

• I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.

  

  Ira Glass
  • College
  • Talent
  • Class

• I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Simple

• I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Country
  • Heart

• I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Today

• I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Story

• I've often felt I've been born out of my time, and when I started Fairground Attraction in the 1980s, I wanted to be a 1940s jazz singer.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Time
  • Born
  • Jazz

• When I was young, watching historical movies made me feel absolutely sublime. But the first few times I visited costume museums, I was really disappointed because it was not at the level I saw in movies. It was not the level of the image I'd imagined.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movies
  • Young
  • Level

• Savage – There is only one way fit for a man – Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Violence
  • Savage

• Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

  

  David Duchovny
  • Interesting
  • Respect

• If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

  

  Jim Parrack
  • Up
  • Power
  • Hand

• The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Hope
  • Respect
  • Practice

• The essence of travel is diffuse. It is never there on the spot as it were, but always beyond: its symbol is the horizon, and its interest always lies over that edge in the unseen.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Travel
  • Lies