John Buchan Quotes

This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.

John Buchan

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• Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • Time
  • Great
  • American

• Creating things sometimes is difficult.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Difficult

• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Debt
  • Ceiling
  • Trigger

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Up
  • Teach
  • Students

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Blood

• The first job of a writer is to be honest.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Job
  • First
  • Writer

• When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Name
  • Jazz

• I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Me
  • Broken
  • Down

• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • New York
  • Subway

• Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Up
  • Think
  • Stadium

• I've been approached after shows from people who said, 'I don't agree with anything you said, but I laughed the whole way through.' That's still a little strange to me. Like, nothing, really? But at the same time, that's what happens in a conversation.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Time
  • Conversation

• If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • You

• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Write
  • First

• I would never sign up to film my personal life.

  

  Charlyne Yi
  • Life
  • Up

• Boxing is a lonely sport.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Lonely
  • Boxing

• Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.

  

  Anna Maria Chavez
  • Environment

• He took pride in belonging to the world's most exclusive club: the United States Senate.

  

  Margaret Truman
  • World
  • Pride

• Good human qualities-honesty, sincerity, a good heart-cannot be bought with money, nor can they be produced my machines, but only by the mind itself. We can call this the inner light, or God's blessing, or human qualitity. This is the essence of mankind.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • God
  • Mind

• This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.

  

  John Buchan
  • Life
  • World
  • Mind