Douglas Brinkley Quotes

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

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• I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Up
  • Time
  • Important

• We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Being
  • Traffic

• Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Justice
  • Sometimes
  • Blind

• Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Present
  • Moment

• It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Sweet

• Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Want
  • Working
  • Invest

• My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Writing
  • Old
  • Old Days

• I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Always

• I never liked the men I loved and never loved the men I liked.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Men
  • Never
  • Loved

• So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

  

  Edgar Fiedler
  • Different
  • Business
  • You

• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Love
  • Laugh
  • Admire

• I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Time
  • Art
  • Value

• Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to the police or have done bizarre things to the bodies.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Done
  • Police
  • Letters

• Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • People
  • Loyalty

• When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

  

  John Adams
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• 'It became like a symbolic thing, to be 'an artist.' After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.'

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Attitude

• One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Important

• We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

  

  Jan de Bont
  • Movie

• In my home country, which is one of the oldest kingdoms in the world, you're born with the title. You don't get elected. I don't know how the king and queen of Denmark would respond if they suddenly had to do a speech, if the people would vote for them. I don't know how that would end up.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Whoever claims to be smart, but does not concentrate on the Hereafter, is lying.

  

  Wahb ibn Munabbih
  • Smart
  • Lying
  • Islamic

• The peasant boy, who followed the coloured track of the rainbow, hoping to find the blue and charmed flower which springs where the arch touches earth, is wiser far than one who gives youth, genius, and time to literature.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Time
  • Earth
  • Boy

• Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'

  

  Douglas Brinkley