Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

• Art
• Book
• Choices
• Talent
• Sanity
• Solace

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• I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • People
  • Myself
  • Pain

• Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Kind

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • World
  • Believe

• Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • Book
  • Fun

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • New
  • New York
  • Los Angeles

• For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Reality
  • Humility

• I don't work with a stylist.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Work
  • Stylist

• In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Eyes
  • More
  • Patriot

• It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Story
  • Forget
  • Easy

• Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Adventure

• Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.

  

  Sallust

• I guess somewhere along the way He must have let us all out to play Turned his back, and all God's children Crept out the back door

  

  George Michael
  • God
  • Children
  • Door

• Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Life

• Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph.

  

  Lewis Hine
  • May
  • Photograph
  • Photographs

• Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Alone
  • Justice
  • Democracy

• Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Music
  • School
  • Love

• I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Book

• Best fight ever in a movie: 'They Live.' I want to do a martial arts version of that, where you think it's ended, and it just keeps on going. I love that fight. It was funny as well. Unexpected.

  

  Scott Adkins
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Fighting

• Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Art
  • Book
  • Choices