Mary Beard Quotes

Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

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• If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • May
  • Help

• All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • World
  • Home
  • War

• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Culture
  • Universe
  • Understanding

• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  

  Cao Cao
  • World
  • Me
  • Rather

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Time
  • Book
  • Boat

• Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Friend
  • Lonely
  • Meeting

• I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Friends
  • Community
  • Grew

• When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Creative

• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Different
  • Band
  • New York

• I'll be blunt: Money's gotten buggy.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • Money
  • Blunt
  • Gotten

• There's always going to be someone somewhere who doesn't agree with my parents' opinion of me. It can't bother you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Parents
  • Always
  • Opinion

• When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Up
  • Time
  • Interesting

• The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Value
  • Facts
  • Intellectual

• I still feel that sincerity and realism are avant-garde, or can be, just as I did when I started out.

  

  Edmund White

• Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Women
  • Game

• No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Respect
  • Husband
  • Legend

• In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

  

  Kit Williams
  • Character
  • Book
  • Painting

• Turbochargers are for people who cant build engines.

  

  Keith Duckworth
  • People
  • Engines
  • Turbochargers

• Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun!

  

  Thomas Hood
  • Sun

• Barring some sociopaths, probably, there is nobody who doesn't care about their appearance.

  

  Mary Beard