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

• Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

  

  Petrarch
  • Life
  • Art
  • Physicians

• Music is probably one of the most honest things out there - it's feral.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Music

• London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • City

• It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Belief
  • Firsts
  • Amendments

• My very first job was something called Nobodys Watching, that Bill Lawrence who created Scrubs, it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, Ive been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.

  

  Mircea Monroe
  • Environment
  • Firsts
  • Involved

• 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