R. M. Ballantyne Quotes

I propose,” replied Jack, “that we shall undress ourselves, rub ourselves entirely over with charcoal and grease, so that they shall not recognise us, and dash in and carry the girl off by a coup de main. In which case it will, of course, be neck or nothing, and a tremendous race to the cave, where, if they follow us, we will keep them at bay with our rifles.” “Umph!

R. M. Ballantyne

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• Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Player

• I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

  

  Larry David
  • Embrace
  • Stay
  • Panic

• A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.

  

  A. J. Bowen
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• Our fashion style is very legendary and very classic. I feel like it's different, and I feel like everybody got our own different style to bring to the table.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Different
  • Fashion
  • Style

• If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

  

  Mary Astell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• Frank Sinatra was a great singer, but my favourite is Sammy Davis Jr. He had incredible versatility in his voice, often doing impressions of people. It's always going to be classic, and you'll never get bored listening.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • People
  • Great
  • Listening

• I don't sleep with happily married men.

  

  Britt Ekland
  • Men
  • Sleep

• Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Different
  • Together
  • Intelligent

• False modesty is better than none.

  

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson
  • False
  • Modesty
  • None

• A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Real
  • Kind
  • Responsibility

• Even a low-budget film costs way more money than a high-priced record. So, it's mo' money, mo' problems. When you have more money, it just creates more people trying to get involved and you have more trouble.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Party

• Life is a Shylock; always it demands The fullest userer's interest for each pleasure. Gifts are not freely scattered by its hands; We make returns for every borrowed treasure.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life

• Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

  

  Charles Handy
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

  

  Charles James
  • Lost
  • Fashion
  • Magic

• Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • May
  • Moments
  • Two

• Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Action

• No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

  

  Joshua Oppenheimer
  • Forget
  • Camera
  • Presence

• It's so Canada. On some level, you laugh, but on another level, it's just depressing. We pride ourselves: We're not like the bad old U.S. where they had segregation, whites-only washrooms and hotels. We think we were the capital of the Underground Railroad, we were the place to where the slaves escaped, we were a much better country. But in fact, some of the black people in Canada at the time said, 'It's actually much easier in the United States because you know which hotels, restaurants, theatres won't let you in because the signs are there. In Canada, you never know.'

  

  Constance Backhouse
  • Pride
  • Ourselves
  • Canada

• I propose,” replied Jack, “that we shall undress ourselves, rub ourselves entirely over with charcoal and grease, so that they shall not recognise us, and dash in and carry the girl off by a coup de main. In which case it will, of course, be neck or nothing, and a tremendous race to the cave, where, if they follow us, we will keep them at bay with our rifles.” “Umph!

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Ourselves
  • Propose
  • Jack