Raymond Bonner Quotes

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

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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
  • Medical
  • Treat

• 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

• I learned what looked good on my petite frame, and to this day, I'm a great bargain shopper.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Good
  • Great
  • Day

• 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

• It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Important
  • Experience

• 'Superbad' was such a personal movie.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Movie
  • Superbad

• I went to the Women's March in D.C. on January 21, and I, looking around, was thinking, Wow, something that bonds all of us is that we've been silent-screaming in our bathrooms, alone, in between sarcastic lunches.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Alone

• Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Crazy
  • Ugly
  • Rebel

• You know the known, so go a little into the unknown. The mind that is caught up in the known - extended a little beyond reason. The moment you go beyond , you move in the soul. Releasing the bondage of your mind to extend further, reach the unknown a little more. The further you go, you realize that the known is limited and the unknown is vast.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Soul

• I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

  

  Iman
  • She
  • Age
  • Confidence

• 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