Farley Mowat Quotes

Ah me son, we don't be taking nothing from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away...

Farley Mowat

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• Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • You
  • Someone
  • Been

• You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • You
  • Know
  • Mark

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Me
  • Never
  • Animal

• We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • Know
  • Comedy

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Long
  • Just
  • Going

• People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • People
  • Young
  • Race

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Good
  • War
  • Evil

• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Done
  • Courage

• Philosophy was once considered science.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Once

• I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Question
  • Poetry
  • Risk

• I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Language
  • Gujarati

• I am at one of the best clubs in the world and in the best league. And in my private life, everything is also going very well. At 25, I feel in the right place.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • You
  • Language
  • Try

• A fan almost pulled me off stage once, and that was a little scary because I totally almost ate it!

  

  Madison Marlow
  • Me
  • Scary
  • Stage

• Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Writing
  • End
  • King

• Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Up
  • Church

• As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

  

  Melissa Leo
  • Thinking
  • Yourself
  • Lonely

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• Our standards for motherhood are so high that many of us harbor intense, secret guilt for every harsh word we speak to our children, every negative thought that enters our minds.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Children
  • High
  • Motherhood

• We saw a need to develop a community for artists to get their music out to the masses. With MySpace, when they went out on tour, they could actually tour nationally. The band might have 20,000 friends on their list and send out a bulletin saying, 'I'm going to be in Austin on Tuesday night. Come see our show.'

  

  Chris DeWolfe
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Night

• Ah me son, we don't be taking nothing from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle it away...

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Sneak up
  • Wiggle away