Richard Preston Quotes

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Expectation

• Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Rest
  • Lonely
  • Broke

• There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Politics
  • Radio
  • Getting

• The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Love
  • Boy

• A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Men
  • Gentleman
  • Wolf

• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Child
  • Promise

• I have a lot of artists who I just love to hear their music, and I'm a fan of them.

  

  Maluma
  • Music
  • Love
  • Artists

• Looking back now toward the startYou said you thought I'd lost my pathAnd I asked if you still considered love an artAnd you said "No, I think it's more a craft"And I just turned and laughedI just had to turn and laugh.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Lost

• I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Heart

• The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Challenge
  • Dumb

• If you can remove a female character from your plot and replace her with a sexy lamp and your story still works, you're a hack.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Character
  • Sexy

• The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• Poe was plagued and haunted most of all by something pretty banal: poverty. Probably the most eccentric decision in life was to become a writer in an age when making a living at it was nearly impossible.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Life
  • Age
  • Pretty

• All great achievements require time.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Great

• There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Opportunity
  • Wish

• It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Represented

• I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Want
  • Show
  • Just

• I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Comedy
  • Teenage
  • Prude

• When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

  

  Bob Beckel
  • Black
  • Racism

• As far as my mindset goes, I have no more frustration. I have had a year off, had a year to watch basketball and really learn the game from the outside in, and I see what I need to do, and I'm just anxious. I'm waiting to start. Come Monday, I'll be working. I can't say it any other way. I want to get things going.

  

  Andrew Bynum
  • Working
  • Start
  • Basketball

• No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.

  

  Richard Preston
  • History
  • Exactly
  • Inheritance