Marla Gibbs Quotes

As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

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• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • High
  • Muse
  • Conqueror

• While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • World
  • Great
  • Interesting

• I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'

  

  Laura Osnes
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Man
  • Problem
  • Hair

• I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Reading

• Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Long
  • Surprise

• We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Yourself

• This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Speak
  • Bed

• Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Science
  • Independent
  • Review

• With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Live
  • Art
  • Earth

• Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Character
  • Like
  • Darkness

• I'm definitely post-something.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Definitely

• Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • Good
  • Why
  • Bad

• As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • War
  • Soul

• If you can sing together, you can live together.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Live
  • Together
  • You

• Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

  

  Martin Luther
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole - it creates an engaging experience. We don't dip in and out of an episode of 'Game of Thrones,' after all - we take it in as a whole. Why have we abandoned this concept when it comes to publications, simply because they exist online?

  

  John Battelle
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Air

• If you hit a bad shot, just tell yourself it is great to be alive, relaxing and walking around on a beautiful golf course. The next shot will be better.

  

  Al Geiberger
  • Golf
  • Shot
  • Relaxing

• As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don't have any intention of retiring from anything.

  

  Marla Gibbs