Ranulph Fiennes Quotes

No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

Ranulph Fiennes

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• I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

  

  Major Owens
  • Education
  • Respect
  • Technology

• I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Career
  • You
  • Down

• I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Joy

• I would love to go back to Broadway.

  

  Katie Finneran

• I think a lot of 'Edward Scissorhands' was about the suburban world that Burton grew up in feeling like an outcast. I feel like there's no way it's not at least a little autobiographical from that standpoint. I always liked that.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Up
  • World
  • Feeling

• As tragic as Benghazi was, its importance pales next to killing Osama bin Laden.

  

  Bob Beckel

• The sum total of all my stop-starts have made me less concerned about the future. I'm just aware now that I'll always land on my feet somehow.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Future
  • Stop

• St. Louis is a very interesting city in terms of accents.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Interesting
  • City

• The free market is at its best when everybody works in a fish bowl and tells you their point of view... The hedge funds and portfolio managers have a right to do this... We've muted the analysts and their presence in the system.

  

  Mario Gabelli
  • Free

• The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • People
  • Business

• On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

  

  John Jay Hooker
  • Political

• Democratic candidates who run from President Obama in red states where he is unpopular are making a big mistake. Their holding Obama at arm's length deprives voters of a clear choice at the ballot box.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • Mistake
  • Red

• The truth is, it is hard to know where ideas come from.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Truth

• I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

  

  Anna Kendrick
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I feel very good about our business and the speed at which we are executing our strategy to drive differentiation for Accenture and accelerate our rotation to The New.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Good
  • Business

• Once we played for the Princess of Monaco in Paris. We were the biggest ducks ever, wearing rented tuxedos. We trashed the party, took a bunch of girls and champagne in limos underneath the Eiffel Tower, and set up an acoustic show. It was like a Hilary Duff movie.

  

  Conrad Sewell
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Party

• The longer and longer I played in the NFL, I kind of said, 'Well, I'm not going to go out and get a 9 to 5 job at any point soon, so what can I do?' So I started hosting radio and TV shows while I was still playing.

  

  Matt Willig
  • Job

• I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • God
  • Europe

• You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Long
  • Want

• I got 'Scandal,' and that was, far and away, the biggest deal that had happened in my career. Simultaneously, the stress from planning my wedding and being in the public eye for the first time, combined with genetics - I got the diagnosis that I had psoriasis, and I was completely embarrassed and ashamed. I felt like a lesser person.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • Time
  • Career
  • Stress

• No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty. Whether as seen carving the lines of the mountains with glaciers, or gathering matter into stars, or planning the movements of water, or gardening - still all is Beauty!

  

  John Muir
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Water

• No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

  

  Ranulph Fiennes
  • Firsts
  • Planning
  • Expeditions