Shana Alexander Quotes

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

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• Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Mind
  • She
  • Mother

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

  

  Salmon P. Chase
  • President
  • Him
  • Lights

• My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been defeated by the powers of darkness, and we all find redemption in the light of Christ.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Light
  • Journey
  • Darkness

• The seasons and the years came and went...and always...one was, as the crow flies, about 2,000 km away - but from where? - and day by day hour by hour, with every beat of the pulse, one lost more and more of one's qualities, became less comprehensible to oneself, increasingly abstract.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Lost
  • Years
  • Seasons

• I know you can't control everything, and everything is in God's hands ultimately, but I'm going to fight, go out and perform for everybody, I don't care.

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Control

• Well, you know what the Fulham Road's like. If your top-hat blows off into it, it has about as much chance as a rabbit at a dogshow.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Road

• It starts with your diet and then to your exercise... you have to make the right decisions as a consumer and learn about carbs and proteins as well as watching your portion control, and from there you have to stay active as much as possible.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Control
  • Exercise
  • Diet

• I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met

  

  Carole Lombard
  • Actors
  • Intelligent
  • Bills

• I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I'm a lot different in my career since that interview. To have someone like Diplo tweet "Cakes' album is really cool" is cool, but in the same breath I still like what I do without anyone's approval. It's still good music.

  

  Rashard Bradshaw
  • Good
  • Music
  • Different

• Let must or if be damned with whomever's afraid down with ought with because with every brain which thinks it thinks, nor dares to feel.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Brain

• We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Life
  • Live
  • Question

• [E]very job is composed of many small details, any one of which, if overlooked, can create big problems later.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Job
  • Small
  • Problems

• We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Stop
  • Desire
  • Progress

• Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy - it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.

  

  Steven Strogatz
  • Legacy
  • Math
  • Numbers

• Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.

  

  Shana Alexander
  • Rocks
  • Hammocks