Rudyard Kipling Quotes

The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

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• The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Up
  • Comedy

• I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Story
  • Audience
  • Experiences

• I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Wonder
  • Hero
  • Green

• As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

  

  Ice T
  • Real
  • Why
  • Want

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • World
  • Children
  • Kids

• I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Free
  • Alone
  • Credit

• Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Point

• Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?

  

  Ben Harper
  • Believe
  • Fall
  • Morning

• I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Happy
  • Should
  • Might

• There is good and bad in everyone.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Profound

• I'm impossible to forget, but I'm hard to remember.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Remember
  • Forget
  • Impossible

• We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Teach
  • Sphere

• This will without doubt play into the hands of separatists in Kosovo and Montenegro wanting to leave the (Yugoslav) federation

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Play
  • Doubt
  • Kosovo

• From what I've seen, you either get grounded in that kind of positive thinking early on in life or you don't. Establishing priorities and using your time well aren't things you can pick up at the Harvard Business School. Formal learning can teach you a great deal, but many of the essential skills in life are the ones you have to develop on your own.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.

  

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  • Life
  • Spiritual
  • Mercy

• When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

  

  Kathrine Switzer
  • Break
  • Happen
  • Limitations

• Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why

  

  Michael Hutchence INXS
  • Why
  • Knows
  • Causes

• The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
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