Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes
Tarzan of the Apes lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years, only that he grew stronger and wiser, and learned from his books more and more of the strange worlds which lay somewhere outside his primeval forest.Edgar Rice Burroughs
Quotes to Explore
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Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.
Nancy Kress -
I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
Ilana Glazer -
I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.
Wale -
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
Patricia McBride
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
Carlton Fisk -
I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'
Eddie Marsan -
Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.
Adam Lambert -
A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?'
Nathaniel Philbrick -
What was the American Revolution? The people who joined to carry it out had different views of what they had done.
Edmund Morgan
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
Carla Bley -
My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
Frances O'Grady -
Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.
Florence Nightingale -
How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
Samuel Johnson -
Well, I don't worry about ratings. I'm trying to win a ballgame right now. Whatever it takes to win a ballgame, we're going to do it. If it takes a four-hour game, that's what we have to do.
Larry Bird
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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
Peter Benchley -
A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.
Patti Stanger -
For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.
Madhuri Dixit -
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Davy Crockett -
Burnt child fire dredth.
John Heywood -
Tarzan of the Apes lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years, only that he grew stronger and wiser, and learned from his books more and more of the strange worlds which lay somewhere outside his primeval forest.
Edgar Rice Burroughs