John Muir Quotes

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

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• I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Fun

• All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Up
  • Brain
  • Thought

• I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Passion
  • Couple
  • Need

• Gregory Lee Johnson was an idiot.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Idiot
  • Johnson
  • Lee

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • Good
  • Real

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
  • Give
  • Romance

• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • Know
  • Equality

• The precondition to freedom is security.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Freedom
  • Security

• After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• We provide business advice and guidance. We started it here in India first, and now we have taken it globally. India was the first for startup incubation in the world for us.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Business
  • Taken

• I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Life
  • Day
  • Air

• In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Women
  • Intelligence

• I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.

  

  Sam Smith
  • God
  • Believe

• There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Great
  • Children
  • Best

• From a Canadian partisan perspective, the more we can upgrade bitumen in Canada, the more we can create jobs in value added, in tax revenues for all Canadians.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Value
  • Perspective
  • Canada

• I'm a rock and roll singer.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Roll

• I think that texting and driving is a 100 percent no-go. I think it should be banned everywhere because you cannot be focused on looking ahead, in the mirrors, being aware of what's around you, and to type on a small keyboard and a small screen.

  

  Allan McNish
  • Small
  • Driving

• My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Fashion
  • Mom

• Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Road

• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • California
  • Berkeley

• I like quips. I like whiffs of cynicism and I think they can be witty. But I don't really know where wittiness is constructive.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Witty

• When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.

  

  John Muir
  • California