Richard Scott Bakker Quotes

This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.

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• I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Think
  • Muscle

• I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Up
  • Always
  • Loved

• I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Day
  • Always
  • Start

• If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • May
  • Home
  • You

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Thoughts

• There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Learned
  • Grateful

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • God
  • Love
  • Funny

• Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Food
  • Simple
  • Spices

• I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Done
  • Die
  • Myself

• I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Death

• I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Deep
  • Very
  • New Years

• I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Up
  • Try
  • Now

• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Stock
  • Winner

• I come to win.

  

  Leo Durocher

• I’ve lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I've got a great team around me with my family, manager and label, and we've all worked hard together to make things happen.

  

  Kygo
  • Great
  • Family
  • Together

• This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Revelations