Mark Kurlansky Quotes

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• My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Want
  • Effort

• You can't sit here and try to predict what kind of character I'm going to be drawn to next. At the time when I read 'The Girl on the Train,' it wasn't like I was, 'Ooh, I want to play a hot mess next.'

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Character
  • Girl

• The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Alone

• I picked Harvard because it was in a big city, and a lot of girls' schools were nearby. And I liked President Kennedy, who went to Harvard.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • City
  • President
  • Big City

• Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • School
  • Book
  • High

• The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Best
  • Need
  • Prove

• I wanted to play this part: the goofy rock and roller who can't hang up his guitar when it's clear to everyone else that he should.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • Play
  • Rock

• Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Work
  • Recognition
  • Worthy

• You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Want
  • You
  • Classy

• When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Culture

• Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Water

• How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!

  

  Edmund Spenser

• This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

  

  Ralph Nader

• I’ve been thinking about the war a lot recently, and I think I’ve decided it’s wrong. We are defeating ourselves in waging it, will destroy ourselves by winning it.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Thinking
  • War
  • Winning

• You are a valuable subject, Brodrig. You always suspect far more than is necessary, and I have but to take half your suggested precautions to be utterly safe.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Business
  • Smart

• It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

  

  Elijah Cummings
  • American
  • Death
  • Black

• I personally, generally, don't really feel much emotion if there's some problem and I'm actively solving it.

  

  Vitalik Buterin
  • Problem
  • Emotion
  • Solving

• Es gibt Männer, die imstande sind, eine Frau, die sie in keiner Weise anzieht, zu heiraten-bloß weil sie den anderen gefällt. Und solche Ehen gibt es auch zwischen so manchen Menschen und ihren Gedanken.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Die

• It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

  

  Will Smith
  • Feeling

• I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

  

  Jess Glynne
  • Soul
  • Powerful

• I'm interested in most everything.

  

  Mark Kurlansky