Raymond Bonner Quotes

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

Raymond Bonner

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• I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Think
  • Artist

• All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Father
  • Me
  • Things

• As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Long
  • Chance
  • Going

• I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Career
  • Action

• I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Cancer
  • Treat
  • Medical

• I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Find
  • Interest
  • Mystery

• Our life is full of empty space.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Space
  • Empty

• Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Single
  • Said

• Timid salesmen have skinny kids.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • Skinny
  • Timid

• It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • True
  • Education
  • Being

• O Banner!Not houses of peace are you, nor any nor all of their prosperity; if need be you shall have every one of those houses to destroy them;You thought not to destroy those valuable houses, standing fast, full of comfort, built with money;May they stand fast then? Not an hour, unless you, above them and all, stand fast.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Money
  • May
  • Peace

• In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.

  

  Charli XCX
  • World
  • Work
  • Unique

• Although individual states have primary responsibility for conducting fair and impartial elections, the FBI becomes involved when paramount federal interests are affected or electoral abuse occurs.

  

  James Comey
  • Responsibility
  • Abuse

• 'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Movie
  • Superbad

• I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.

  

  Jaye Davidson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I love Salma Hayek; we've been friends for a really long time. I admire how she has come such a long way and always remained grounded and who she is. She never compromises to follow her vision, and she is loyal. Such qualities only mark the great stars.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I'm just afraid that I may not have the strength to do this job. After you leave me tonight, Jimmy, I am going to pray. I am going to pray that God will help me, that he will give me the strength and the guidance to do this job and to do it right. I hope that you will pray for me, too, Jimmy.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • God
  • May
  • Job

• When is the next time? We don't have a time frame. I suspect it will likely to be November, if history is anything to go by.

  

  Margaret Chan
  • Time
  • History
  • November

• When I won my first Grand Slam in Australia, and we came back, I had much more confidence. I had much more belief in my game, about my improvement.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Game
  • Confidence
  • Improvement

• If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Grow

• I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

  

  Raymond Bonner
  • Confidence
  • Swimming
  • Return