Rachel Carson Quotes

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

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• Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Film

• I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Time
  • Think
  • Doing

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Small
  • Eyes
  • Drawing

• I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Work
  • Think
  • Political

• 'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Love
  • Together

• I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• We're humans. Why always turn human attitude into political behaviours? I hate that.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Why
  • Political
  • Hate

• Deep in the human nature, there is an almost irresistible tendency to concentrate physical and mental energy on attempts at solving problems that seem to be unsolvable. Indeed, for some kinds of active people, only the seemingly unsolvable problems can arouse their interest.

  

  Ragnar Frisch
  • People
  • Nature
  • Energy

• To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

  

  Lane Kirkland
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Lips

• I don't even sing in the shower.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Sing
  • Even
  • Shower

• KRS One and LL Cool J are the biggest influences in my rap career, along with Heavy D.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Career
  • Cool
  • Rap

• It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Doing

• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Superhuman

• Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Question
  • Process

• What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman

• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Environment
  • Opinions

• As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Argument
  • Folks

• My rubber burnin, turnin corners beatin like a CongoYou try to jack and pull the strap, it's ASAP prontoThe King of the South, every hood's head honchoI'm West Side certified, go where the fuck I wanna go.

  

  T.I.
  • King
  • Hood

• Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

  

  Alfred Richard Orage
  • Emotions
  • Jealousy
  • Sweetest

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

  

  Rachel Carson