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

• After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Money
  • Book
  • Years

• In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Religious
  • Values
  • Harmony

• The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Music
  • West
  • East

• I've gone through some dark times, and at those times, my tattoos have helped and guided me through.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Dark
  • Times
  • Helped

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

  

  Brigham Young
  • West