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.Freya Stark
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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 -
I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
Imogen Poots -
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 -
I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
Saina Nehwal -
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 -
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
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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 -
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 -
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 -
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
Ira Glass -
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 -
I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
Tammy Faye Bakker
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I think the kids today need to hear more about morals and values.
Isaac Hayes -
I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.
Felicity Jones -
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 -
I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
Walt Whitman -
Simplicity is not so simple to attain.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
Bea Arthur
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For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol or spiritual idea becomes rigidly elaborate in its construction, it supplants the idea which it should support.
Rabindranath Tagore -
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock -
Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.
Adam Smith -
To me, the best writing points to something literal or common but is also nuanced: The moment when somebody is telling you they love you while simultaneously disappointing you. Everybody's experienced that.
Kelela Mizanekristos -
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