Archibald Rutledge Quotes

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

Archibald Rutledge

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• Hunting
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• Bumblebees

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• I believe that you can always learn from observation.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Believe
  • Learn
  • Observation

• Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Great
  • Look
  • New

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • People
  • Voice
  • Understand

• You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Me
  • Artist
  • Vision

• Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Great
  • Media
  • Clothes

• I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dogs
  • Clean
  • Feed

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Good
  • Work
  • Taking Risks

• To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don't be discouraged that my own journey hasn't gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Journey

• We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • World
  • America
  • Me

• Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Way
  • You
  • Repetition

• 'Do you love him?' Maura asked curiously.'I'd rather not,' Blue replied.'He has lots of negative qualities I can help you hone in on,' her mother offered.'I'm already aware of them. Infinitely.'

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Help
  • Mother
  • Blue

• You can't be wise and in love at the same time.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Time
  • Wise

• It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

  

  Martin Van Buren

• The mind is everything. What you think you become.

  

  Buddha
  • Mind

• I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Real
  • Church
  • Catholic

• We have to be concerned about future obligations.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Future
  • Concerned
  • Obligations

• She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

  

  Alan Garner
  • She
  • Hunting
  • Flowers

• I think what you have inside reflects very much in your face, in your expression. If you can find a kind of equilibrium in life, you never really get old, because you have that kind of ingenuity and innocence inside that gives you that brightness and that glint in your eye that generally, getting older, you lose.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Kind
  • Eye
  • Innocence

• Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Answer

• Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Metaphor
  • Los Angeles
  • Honey

• The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

  

  Archibald Rutledge
  • Eye
  • Hunting
  • Horizon