Douglas Tompkins Quotes
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
-
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
-
The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.
-
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
-
I never was a very good singer.
-
You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
-
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
-
In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
-
I stopped watching horror movies after I watched 'Candyman' when I was – I don't know, fifteen or something. I remember my sister rented it, 'Candyman,' and it really, really scared me. And so it was only after I found myself in a horror film that I really went back and kind of rediscovered the genre.
-
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
-
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
-
'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
-
Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.
-
Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.
-
Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
-
I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
-
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
-
War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
-
From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.
-
We must be very careful when we say that somebody giving you compliments about your looks should be offensive. I think women really should look at why they're being offended by that.
-
We're kind of in that difficult line, where you still feel like you're in it. You still go out there and try to win every game, yet you have to look periodically at these other guys. It's not a real comfortable place to be, yet that's where we are and guys are going to get some days off from time to time.
-
In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
-
Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
-
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.
