John Boyd Orr Quotes

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

John Boyd Orr

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• All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.

  

  Ian Holm
  • Acting
  • Role
  • Performances

• I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Wish

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• I think the thing that I really wanna bring is that I have a full world of music and imagination and ideas that I want to create as an artist, and that's my main thing that I want to do.

  

  Cam
  • World
  • Music
  • Imagination

• Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Protect
  • Presidential

• Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Great
  • Different
  • Guitar

• To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Violence
  • Daughter
  • Situation

• Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Training
  • Win
  • Again

• I had so much fun developing and launching my first fragrance with Avon, so for my second fragrance, I really wanted to add a little more edge. Outspoken Intense is a provocative blend of sexy confidence and daring femininity that captures the thrill and excitement of being centre stage.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Sexy
  • Fragrance
  • Centre

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• Everything and anything is valuable.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Everything
  • Anything

• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Sex
  • Dying
  • Generation

• It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Want
  • Fear
  • See

• Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • American
  • Alone
  • Movies

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Good
  • Democracy

• Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Good
  • Knowledge

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Work
  • Small
  • Beginning

• I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.

  

  Gene Luen Yang
  • Friends
  • Help
  • Pretty

• Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Time
  • Long
  • Community

• Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

  

  John Boyd Orr
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