Brigham Young Quotes

We went west willingly--because we had to.

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• I can't seem to help writing love stories. I definitely crave romance. When I was young, I craved romance in books, but I didn't want to read just romance - love plays such a big part in our lives, it shouldn't be cut out and restricted to its own fiction.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Help
  • Stories
  • Young

• I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Bed
  • Obsession
  • Ship

• I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning.

  

  K. A. Paul
  • You
  • Tomorrow
  • I Can

• I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. I was giving so many pieces of myself to their movies, I thought, 'It's about time I use my own voice for me, and establish my own voice.' So I knew I wanted to make films.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Giving

• A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Choice
  • Enemies

• My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Important
  • Game
  • Cricket

• I've been racing for my whole life, and I know what I need to do to be able to win.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Life
  • Know
  • Win

• I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Words
  • Artist
  • Just

• The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Different
  • Ideas
  • Politics

• I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• There should be a water table on Mars.

  

  Heidi Hammel
  • Mars
  • Water Table

• Justice is like some unnatural hybrid flower you people have bred. It will not live long unless you keep it sheltered and warm.

  

  Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Live
  • Justice
  • Flower

• Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

  

  Georges Carpentier
  • Boxing
  • Half
  • Attack

• The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Past
  • Mean

• I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.

  

  Willard Scott
  • Jobs
  • Broadcasting

• It’s so silly to me to have 30,000 people facing and worshipping this one dorky human who’s lucky enough to be playing music for everyone else.

  

  Bassnectar
  • Music
  • Human
  • Worshipping

• Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, (e) poison, and, generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.

  

  George Mikes
  • School
  • Television
  • Educational

• I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • New York
  • Bestseller

• Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Imagination
  • Arts
  • Expand

• We went west willingly--because we had to.

  

  Brigham Young
  • West