Richard Adams Quotes

If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

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• I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Enjoy
  • Would
  • Dinner

• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Good
  • Party
  • Leadership

• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • True
  • Judge
  • Perspective

• Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

  

  Ice T
  • Future
  • Want
  • Cinema

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Music
  • Business
  • Think

• In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Gold

• In this playhouse of infinite forms I have had my play, and here have I caught sight of him that is formless.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• In the history of physics, every time we've looked beyond the scales and energies we were familiar with, we've found things that we wouldn't have thought were there. You look inside the atom and eventually you discover quarks. Who would have thought that? It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

  

  Lisa Randall
  • Time
  • History

• Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • She

• DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Gold

• It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.

  

  James Patterson
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I wanted to have a creative director crazy enough to say, 'Sure, I'll do a collection in five days.'

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • Crazy

• I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Winning

• Remember, the first presidential candidate to reject public financing for both the primary and general election was... Barack Obama, in 2008. He did it, in spite of a flat pledge to the contrary, because his campaign saw that it could vastly outspend John McCain.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Remember
  • Presidential

• Release of acetylcholine to put a brake on arousal, slowing the heart down, relaxing muscles, and returning breathing to normal.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Heart
  • Muscles
  • Brake

• Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with.

  

  Lecrae
  • Life
  • Rolling
  • Dice

• I try not to obsess about recording. I'm definitely the one who will leave all the mistakes-to have that balance between what's undone and done. I try to move on to the next thing. I have friends who have been working on the same song for five, six years. They just won't let the songs go.

  

  Beck
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Song

• It's hard to get to the point where you feel motivated and energized to go back in and create new music when you feel like you've just drained yourself by pouring everything you have into the previous project. It would be nice sometimes to take a longer break in between projects.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Music
  • Motivated
  • Projects

• If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.

  

  Richard Adams
  • Advice
  • Rabbits