Emilie de Ravin Quotes

I love New York. I've always loved New York.

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Experience
  • Religion

• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

• All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.

  

  Dane Bird-Smith
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Dad

• My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• Because of the way my words get scrutinized, I have to use a level of precision so people don't accuse me of misleading them.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Words
  • Me

• The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Brain
  • Politics

• Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Friendships
  • Begin
  • Lots

• The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Food
  • Things
  • Need

• All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?

  

  Garth Stein
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Speak

• There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Children
  • America
  • Idiots

• I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Experience
  • Thankful
  • Taught

• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Violence
  • Victory

• Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • School
  • Game
  • Giving

• I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman and I don't know that? So that is my goal next year-to really dissect the budget.

  

  Tyra Banks
  • Friend
  • Eyes
  • Model

• I'm the type of guy that likes to lead by example.

  

  Lawrence Timmons
  • Guy

• I learned from McDonald's that we can do great things from a marketing and advertising perspective, but if the experience at the restaurant isn't superior, it might not matter.

  

  Mary Dillon
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Perspective

• If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Love
  • Gift Of God
  • Law Of Christ

• It was very difficult for me to be the only lyricist in the band.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Band

• Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Happy bridegroom, Hesper bringsAll desired and timely things.All whom morning sends to roam,Hesper loves to lead them home.Home return who him behold,Child to mother, sheep to fold,Bird to nest from wandering wide:Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Mother

• I love New York. I've always loved New York.

  

  Emilie de Ravin