Mary Leakey Quotes

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

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• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Inspired
  • Designer
  • Vintage

• I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

  

  Imelda May
  • Love
  • True
  • Inspiration

• The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Action
  • Perfect
  • Mistakes

• Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Time
  • Road
  • Path

• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Honesty
  • Clients
  • Competence

• You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Book
  • Question
  • Chance

• I think America has a brilliant future.

  

  Harold Evans
  • America
  • Think
  • Future

• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

  Sallust
  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • World
  • Black
  • Longevity

• I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Time
  • Music
  • Guy

• The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Children
  • Society

• The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Song
  • Positive
  • Record

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Life
  • History
  • Culture

• Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Man
  • Justice
  • Violence

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Knows
  • Roles
  • Historical

• The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Government
  • Media

• I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

  

  Matt Groening
  • Life
  • Rest

• I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days.

  

  Kirsty Gallacher
  • Time
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• Let's face it, we're not about to earn our way to wealth. That's a mistake millions of Americans make. We think that if we work harder, smarter, longer, we'll achieve our financial dreams, but our paycheck alone-no matter how big-isn't the answer.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Money
  • Dream

• Writing novels is largely about endurance and patience. I take a lot of breaks, hit walls, and go do something else while I think things through. But I do it every day, and I try to treat it as a job, something that is not dictated by whimsy or muses.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Day

• The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

  

  Mary Leakey
  • Money
  • Drawing