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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• Wiggle away

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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

• The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Society
  • Value
  • Revolution

• I've been supporting Help for Heroes for many years - I actually rode in their first-ever official fundraiser back in 2008. I have witnessed the great work that Help for Heroes do to support those who have suffered life-changing injuries and illnesses, and I want to do all I can to help raise as much as possible.

  

  Peta Todd
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Though I battle blind,Love is a fate resignedMemories mar my mind,Love is a fate resignedOver futile odds,And laughed at by the godsAnd now the final frame,Love is a losing game.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Mind
  • Game
  • Fate

• Work is what structures adults' lives: it gives us purpose, focus, a set of responsibilities, and an identity. So when people are not participating in the labour market, all sorts of other things often start to go wrong.

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Work
  • Focus

• Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Space
  • Form
  • Argument

• I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Relationships
  • Capacity
  • Visualizing

• 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