Bryce Courtenay Quotes

I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

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• Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Die
  • Generation
  • Old

• It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Work
  • Mind

• In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Work
  • Long

• I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Mind
  • Victory
  • Give

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Long
  • Die
  • Listen

• There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Love

• I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Mind
  • May
  • War

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Game

• The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Mind
  • Book
  • Doing

• Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Cancer

• People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Remember
  • Die

• Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.

  

  Cara Black
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Healthy

• There aren't too many principles of proper business conduct with which just about everybody will agree. Two come to mind: 1. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't offer co-workers encouragement by patting them on the butt, and 2. Don't burn bridges.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Mind
  • Business
  • Professional

• I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Physical
  • E-mail
  • List

• The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Mind
  • Practice
  • Questions

• By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • Mind
  • City

• Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Good
  • Die
  • Dedication

• It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Why

• Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Prayer
  • Torture
  • Intonation

• "We die," she said, "we die together. That's the deal."

  

  Nalini Singh
  • She
  • Together
  • Die

• I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die.

  

  Bryce Courtenay
  • Mind
  • Die