Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

Elizabeth Gilbert

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• Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Imagination
  • Never
  • Carry

• I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • People
  • Known
  • Supreme Court

• After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Children
  • Yourself

• I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Good
  • American
  • English

• A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Great
  • Together
  • Radio

• Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Money
  • Need
  • Everything

• Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Why
  • Team
  • Competition

• What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • History
  • City

• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Daily
  • Memory
  • Journalism

• I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Husband

• My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Hand

• I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Acting
  • Stage
  • Say

• Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Bridge
  • Ice

• The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Business
  • Wish

• Ty Walker doesn't wear suits very much. He's not used to being that pressed and conservative businessman. So, he's self-conscious anyway about walking around in these skinny-legged suits, and then for someone to sort of assume that's who he is, it really bothers him.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Walking
  • Conservative
  • Suits

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • Team

• My family life and my ideals, my commitment to the community and to other people - all people - has been improved. I think less about myself and more about my community today.

  

  Andre Braugher
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Cents are the most universally used interval measure.

  

  Alexander John Ellis

• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Heart
  • High
  • Health

• Look, pain is there in the world, and there's catharsis through that. I feel like there's... a rapture, if we can get through it, if we can confront things.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • World
  • Pain

• But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Believe
  • Creativity