Andrew Skurka Quotes
After finding the migration trail of the Porcupine caribou, I began to cry uncontrollably, realizing that in this vast and untamed wilderness, I was like them: While being tortured by hellacious mosquitoes, soaked by torrential rains, and stalked by grizzlies and wolves, we were all trying to stay moving, and we slept and ate only to continue our forward progress.
Quotes to Explore
-
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
-
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
-
It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
-
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
-
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
-
If you don't vote, you don't count.
-
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
-
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
-
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
-
I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
-
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
-
In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
-
I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums.
-
True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
-
No good deed goes unpunished.
-
When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
-
Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.
-
If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.
-
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
-
Sheridan is still there, he's the president of the Alliance, everything that was in place when the series is there is still there, we're just moving the camera over a couple of light years.
-
Every soldier, every cop who's faced with a decision to make, a life or death, does the best he or she can.
-
After finding the migration trail of the Porcupine caribou, I began to cry uncontrollably, realizing that in this vast and untamed wilderness, I was like them: While being tortured by hellacious mosquitoes, soaked by torrential rains, and stalked by grizzlies and wolves, we were all trying to stay moving, and we slept and ate only to continue our forward progress.
