Susanna Clarke (Susanna Mary Clarke) Quotes

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

Susanna Clarke

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• The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.

  

  Larry King
  • Life
  • Business
  • Royal

• There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

  

  Idris Elba
  • You
  • Mine
  • Networking

• With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Great
  • Me

• I never said most of the things I said.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Funny
  • Never
  • Said

• When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Small

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Up
  • Explain
  • Jews

• We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• Who's the Knight-Mayor?' I cried. Instead Of answering my question, 'Well, if you don't know THAT,' he said, 'Either you never go to bed, Or you've a grand digestion!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Question

• We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

  

  Daniel Webster
  • People

• With greater extensibility and programmability, bitcoin can evolve to enable transformations in how all forms of property are secured and exchanged, how voting and governance function, including spilling into the automation of commercial law, audit, and accounting.

  

  Jeremy Allaire
  • Law

• Part of what I enjoy about writing classical music is communicating through the score and collaborating with such amazing musicians.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Amazing

• There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • People
  • Society

• The only club that could lure me away from Dortmund is Real Madrid.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Real

• To most Alaskans, Clinton is remembered as being the one individual who has shut Alaska down by vetoing ANWR when we successfully moved it through the Congress.

  

  Lisa Murkowski

• In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don't have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Believe
  • Church
  • Heaven

• I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

  

  Alan J. Pakula
  • Work
  • Important
  • Trying

• I would advise all young musicians to not only experience and play chamber music, but to go to operas, speak to the singers, to explore and expand your horizons.

  

  Wu Han
  • Music
  • Singers
  • Horizon

• I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.

  

  Marshawn Lynch
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I read a lot of science fiction and biography - these are my two favorite genres. My favorite science fiction writers are Hertling, Suarez, Gibson and Stephenson, but I enjoy many others. I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

  

  Brad Feld
  • Business
  • Science
  • Reading

• I never understood that when I heard people retire - they said they missed being around the guys. I don't have a need to make a play in the ninth inning of a game anymore. But being on the inside and being part of a team is something that you really do value and you really do miss.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Game
  • Team

• In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Up
  • Challenge

• An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

  

  Susanna Clarke
  • Reading
  • Other
  • Maps