Farley Mowat Quotes

On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

Farley Mowat

• Felt
• Prospects
• Humankind's

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• Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • People
  • Experience
  • Scratch

• Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Society
  • Fashion
  • Reflection

• It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Up
  • Power
  • Know

• If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Good
  • Walk
  • Feel Good

• Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Me
  • Influence
  • Big

• The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

  

  Dayo Okeniyi
  • People
  • Real
  • Magic

• I've definitely seen that Texas is certainly a right-wing area politically. I think if you talk to the average Texan, some people may still think that alternative energy is some sort of hippie mumbo-jumbo, you know. I think there's still a strong movement to continue to drill and continue to find these other sources of oil within the country.

  

  Jesse Metcalfe
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• I'm an actor first and foremost; it's my first love and passion.

  

  Lou Diamond Phillips
  • Passion

• There's something refreshing about going into filming and not brushing your hair, letting your toenails chip, drawing darker circles under your eyes.

  

  Jodie Comer
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Drawing

• Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one where our senior politicians were spirited and original and possibly even good at what they do.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • Good
  • Live
  • Society

• If I'm going to dress up, I like things that are quite long and classic. I like feeling dressed up and like a lady.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Long
  • Feeling

• And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Having worked in the planning field for over 18 years, I think I would be an asset during the upcoming master plan update.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • I Think
  • Planning
  • Master

• I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • People
  • Good
  • Happiness

• The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Knowledge
  • Spiritual
  • Personality

• While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.'

  

  Allan Carl Newman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Inspiration
  • Voice
  • Empowerment

• Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mankind
  • Superstition
  • Reappear

• We'd go through the whole story again, ... but when we got to that part, he kept saying, 'I don't remember.'

  

  Paul Charles Caravello Kiss
  • Remember
  • Story

• Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Trust
  • Sleep
  • Animals

• On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Felt
  • Prospects
  • Humankind's