Mary Ritter Beard Quotes

Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Drink
  • Fair
  • Noodles

• The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Young
  • Won
  • Claim

• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Think
  • You
  • Ice

• There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.

  

  Walead Beshty
  • Up
  • Relationship
  • Image

• Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Art
  • Business
  • Design

• I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Business
  • Military
  • Author

• I invested all my money in debt.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Money
  • Debt
  • Invested

• For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Quality
  • Child
  • Old

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Better
  • Regret

• I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Run

• The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Easy
  • Cost
  • Finance

• I actually remember the exact date I got the call that I got the 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' role - May 6, 2016. It was probably the best day of my life.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Life
  • May
  • Remember

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Painting
  • Diary

• When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that we most want to visit and commune with. Faulkner's Mississippi, Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles, etc. The mind of the reader longs to be somewhere, not just anywhere, and certainly not nowhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• I've met every freak in the business.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Business
  • Freak
  • Met

• Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Free
  • Pain
  • Value

• I saw a niche in the market where made-to-measure wasn't being done in a modern, fresh way or in a short period of time. Traditionally, bespoke orders take a very long time, but I thought, 'Here we are with all these fashion-forward ideas - why not?'

  

  Emilia Wickstead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Done

• I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel.

  

  Chris Isaak
  • Money
  • Small
  • Travel

• Wherever we go, across the Pacific or Atlantic, we meet, not similarity so much as 'the bizarre'. Things astonish us, when we travel, that surprise nobody else.

  

  Mary Ritter Beard
  • Travel