David Whyte Quotes
We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.David Whyte
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If you want to put golf back on the front pages again, and you don't have a Bobby Jones or a Francis Ouimet handy, here's what you do: You send an aging Jack Nicklaus out in the last round of the Masters and let him kill more foreigners than a general named Eisenhower.
Dan Jenkins -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
Edith Head -
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
J. M. Roberts -
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
Oriana Fallaci -
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
Gary Cherone Van Halen
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I'm a physical comedian first - and I'm a woman before that.
Kate McKinnon -
National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
Pankaj Mishra -
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
Frances Beinecke -
We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang -
The creative part of your brain needs to be stimulated. Sometimes you get blocked in the thing you do, because there's so much pressure to do it.
Bat for Lashes
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
Umberto Eco -
To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
Ramakrishna -
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
Madeline Kahn -
I don't think there's a defined contemporary American musical, do you?
Harold Prince -
Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
Laura Amy Schlitz -
There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
Wayne Rooney
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Customers want high-quality food, good service, and good store experience, and most retailers fail to deliver on those.
John Mackey -
Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.
Gaston Bachelard -
I've done a couple of series before, and what I like about TV is, as an actor, you get that chance to practice all the time, and that's really how you grow.
Meaghan Rath -
So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there’s no way you’re gonna find out what it means.
Frank Zappa -
I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.
Carl Yastrzemski -
We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.
David Whyte