Douglas Tompkins Quotes

Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

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• I did not work hard in order to achieve more and to remain at the level of the player that I am and that I can be.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Hard Work
  • Level

• You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

  

  Ed Markey
  • You
  • Car
  • Wait

• It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Mind
  • May

• I will keep working hard!

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Working
  • Will
  • Working Hard

• I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Scary

• No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Good
  • Car

• My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Life
  • See
  • My Life

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Leaving
  • Stand
  • View

• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Eye
  • Stars

• If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Important
  • Doing

• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Wish
  • Proud
  • Taken

• I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.

  

  Kate Moss
  • World
  • Fun
  • Best

• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Up
  • Hate
  • End

• Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Food

• A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

  

  Irvin S. Cobb
  • Woman
  • Laugh
  • Tongue

• I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Stop
  • Athlete
  • Gym

• The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Heart
  • Me
  • Desire

• Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Marriage
  • Improvement

• I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

  

  Doug TenNapel
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Game

• We understand America’s concerns about terrorism...We have no objection to agreements that protect your security interests. We only ask that you respect international standards on human rights and the Yemeni people’s rights to freedom and justice.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • America
  • Freedom

• Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been wearing Versace for so long, I come in here and I have friends here, and they really support what it is that I do. Our partnership has been great.

  

  Trey Songz
  • Great
  • Long
  • Friends

• Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Style