Benjamin Carson Quotes

Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

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• The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Books
  • Read
  • Just

• My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • World
  • Travel

• I actually bought a travel guitar, and that guitar is really cool. You can actually fold the guitar, and you can plug headphones into it, but it's acoustic, or semi-acoustic.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • Cool
  • Travel
  • Guitar

• I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Love
  • Books
  • Unknown

• I find it's really hard for anybody to meet anyone. I'm not big on dates anyways. I still have to work that out.

  

  Naya Rivera
  • Work
  • Find
  • Meet

• I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Long
  • Travel
  • Volunteer

• I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Time
  • Like
  • Books

• I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Nice
  • Band
  • Travel

• I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Myself
  • Travel
  • Voice

• The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Friends

• The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Books
  • Image
  • Were

• 'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Children
  • Age
  • Books

• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Books
  • Public
  • Written

• If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Deep
  • Travel

• We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Nice

• I've missed the association with players and coaches but haven't missed the recruiting and the travel.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Travel

• Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Up
  • Travel

• It's a very immersive and intense form of travel to walk around with an interpreter and stop random people on the street and ask them about their lives.

  

  Brandon Stanton
  • People
  • Stop
  • Travel

• A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.

  

  Stewart Brand
  • Start
  • Building
  • Finish

• Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all - clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Sense
  • Possible
  • Doctor

• In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Experience
  • Society

• I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • World

• That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Done
  • Control

• Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Travel
  • Books
  • Meet