Rudyard Kipling Quotes

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

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• We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Parents
  • Comedy
  • Cool

• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it. It's like being in the whirlpools which are always present behind a little rock near a river. We seem to be living in these little whirlpools and forget that there is a whole river. The picture is much bigger.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Rock
  • Present

• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Black
  • Best

• There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Kind

• That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Snow

• They have, in essence, treated these articles as empty vessels to be filled with some witches' brew of charges.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Essence
  • Charges
  • Vessels

• The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

  

  Aristotle
  • Water
  • Quantity
  • Incorruptible

• Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Talking
  • Please

• Th' embroid'ry of poetic dreams.

  

  William Cowper
  • Dream
  • Poetic

• Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Canvas
  • Insecurity
  • Painter

• I have to say that oil and gas revenues make up a large part of the Russian budget revenue. This is a serious component for us in addressing economic development, budget funding for our development programmes and, of course, and meeting of our social commitments to our citizens.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Serious
  • Commitment
  • Economic

• I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • People
  • Rule
  • Slave

• Privacy is implied. Privacy is not up for discussion.

  

  Mikko Hypponen
  • Inspiration
  • Internet
  • motivation

• The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
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  • Speaks
  • Jungle