John Muir Quotes

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir

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• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Society
  • Community

• And our dreams are who we are.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Dreams
  • Our
  • Our Dreams

• We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • World
  • Light

• Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Best
  • Story

• Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Good
  • Work
  • Movie

• Crime novels, it has been said, show the human psyche under pressure.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Human
  • Said
  • Pressure

• Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • Child
  • Beast

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Strong
  • Failure
  • Motivational

• My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Education

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Work
  • Responsibility

• No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Never

• Is evolution a theory, a system or a hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.

  

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • True
  • Light

• Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Care
  • Animal

• Annabelle '...health care is an expanding field, as the world fills up with people that would have been dead a hundred years ago. Everybody winds up needing care, pretty much.'

  

  John Updike
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.

  

  Sarah Ferguson
  • Faith
  • Universe
  • Design

• I never felt the need to actually change from being a Moody Blue and doing any solo recording. It is only because The Moody Blues haven’t recorded for over ten years now that I suppose the frustration set in and I really would have liked to have made a new album, and I suddenly realised that in the natural order of things, the album was going to be my own album.

  

  John Lodge The Moody Blues
  • Made
  • Album
  • Recording

• The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

  

  John Muir
  • Universe
  • Forest