Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

Rudyard Kipling

• Twilight
• Burning
• Smelled

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Want
  • Achieving

• The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Good
  • Trust
  • Practice

• If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • Music
  • Why

• I look on most religions as fear-based rather than love-based. I've drifted away from all that. Yes, I think I'm more spiritual. I just don't go and pretend every Saturday or Sunday that I'm in this wonderful club. I'm exploring.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Think
  • Fear
  • Spiritual

• For the first time in 6,000 years of human history, we can have peer-to-peer exchange where trust is not a problem anymore. And it's through the technology that underlies bitcoin. It's called the block chain.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Time
  • History
  • Technology

• To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Unknown

• I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly people want them to.

  

  Freeman Dyson
  • People
  • Question

• I think I'm a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

  

  James Gray
  • American

• I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

  

  Debbie Reynolds

• Seriously, I love my gays. They accept me, and I accept them. Imperfections and all, we accept each other.

  

  Loni Love

• I didn't think I'd ever eat pork; it just does not appeal to me.

  

  Bill Callahan

• My family and I participate in 'Cycle for Survival.' it was started by a friend of my wife's who lost his wife to a rare form of cancer.

  

  Brian Krzanich
  • Family
  • Lost
  • Friend

• As far as 'Twilight' goes, I'm in love with my character. I'm in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world, I love to travel. So wherever it fits in, I'd love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything possible from around the world.

  

  Kellan Lutz
  • Life
  • World
  • Character

• Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

  

  Glenn Frey The Eagles
  • Life
  • Women
  • Value

• Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Time
  • Control
  • Management

• I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

  

  Ashley Williams
  • Challenge

• I understand that people in the media want this to be a sprint every day, but the truth is a presidential campaign is a marathon.

  

  Joel Benenson
  • People
  • Truth
  • Presidential

• What we can do now to bring about his kingdom of justice is to cooperate in the establishment of justice in that portion of his kingdom over which we have some immediate control: ourselves. Let us begin the pursuit of justice and peace by cleaning up our own lives and establishing peace within our own hearts.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Justice
  • Hearts
  • Cleaning

• There is also a great deal of behind-the-scenes pressure from political funders too. And by funders I don't just mean the fossil fuel industry. Many of those exerting pressure on our society to ignore climate change, oppose climate change legislation, and shut down efforts to develop a clean energy economy are doing so out of ideology, not just economics. In the simplest terms, many large industries don't want the government telling them what to do with their businesses and they don't want any restrictions on what they can and cannot do, which includes polluting our shared environment.

  

  Katharine Hayhoe
  • Political
  • Energy
  • Change

• It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Important
  • Career
  • Interesting

• Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Play
  • Burning
  • Crosses

• I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Help
  • Hope

• Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Twilight
  • Burning
  • Smelled