R. M. Ballantyne Quotes
I have always found, though I am unable to account for it, that daylight banishes many of the fears that are apt to assail us in the dark.
Quotes to Explore
-
I felt I'd earned the Good Housekeeping Seal when I designed an oval-shaped spaghetti pot, because spaghetti is long.
-
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
-
Our culture loves movies and TV, which is wonderful, but there's something a little bit passive sometimes about watching, because you're looking at other people's imagination at work.
-
Hopefully there will be a day when all comedy is all robots.
-
A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.
-
I photograph wealth.
-
I want to keep everything balanced. That's why it's important not to have too much fanfare.
-
I think there is a certain gravitas about me. My energy can be very big and yet contained.
-
There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
-
In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.
-
How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
-
We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens.
-
So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.
-
Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams, And shoot the shadows through and through with light? What matters one lost vision of the night? Let the dream go!
-
The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.
-
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.
-
Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!
-
What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.
