Benton MacKaye Quotes
One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.
Benton MacKaye
Quotes to Explore
Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I really do miss playing basketball. I don't play a lot of pick-up games. But I do like using basketball as a form of cross training.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.
Zygmunt Bauman
I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
Ian Hunter
Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.
Umberto Eco
I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
Tom Stoppard
The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.
N. Scott Momaday
There are races and then there are races. And without a doubt, the Indy 500 is the race that I've always wanted to attend. And now, to be driving the Corvette Pace Car... this is going to be unbelievable.
Guy Fieri
I am a sort of vampire, taking the blood of other people.
Karl Lagerfeld
That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.
Gary Player
By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
William Trevor
But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no good, the date was wrong to open the film. I don't believe that. The audience is never wrong. Never.
William Friedkin
Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.
Roger McGuinn
The Byrds
I grew up during the Communist time. When I was a student and I especially wanted to play rock, that was a problem for all rock musicians in the Soviet Union. My friends liked it, but all the Communist officials, bureaucrats, teachers, didn't like this. There was very powerful propaganda against capitalism and the Western ideology. Everything that was connected to the West - rock music, jeans, long hair, loud music - everything was not allowed. But luckily that's now in the past. I hope
Albert Kuvezin
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Phaedrus
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.
Ernest Mandel
When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.
Evel Knievel
If you see a market that has slow and steady growth long enough, you'll start to front-run it, and that slow and steady growth will start turning into steeper growth, and that will accelerate the process.
Erik Voorhees
