Beryl Markham Quotes

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• I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • People
  • Money
  • Doubt

• I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Night

• There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy
  • Morality

• The years teach much which the days never know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Years

• People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.

  

  Sally Field
  • People
  • Business
  • Comedy

• I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I'm naturally quite shy. I'm a quite private person. There's this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who's slightly shy or self-conscious, it's the most frightening thing you can do.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Black
  • Acting
  • New York

• I started visiting schools and talking to kids about bullying and what to do and how to deal with it. I don't think that there is one person who has lived life without being bullied. Everybody gets bullied - whether it's cyber-bullying or to your face or behind your back.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Think

• Often Hollywood crews go into third world countries and I don't believe they behave well.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Hollywood

• I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

  

  Ram Dass
  • World
  • Mind
  • Focus

• I went to drama school in England, and you spend your first year working on the muscles surrounding the vocal mechanisms. You learn how you support it and create characters through your voice so that became an obsession. So I went to Hollywood thinking, 'Oh, I'm going to be one of the great voice-over artists.'

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • School

• I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Up
  • Early
  • Page

• I want to combine the NAACP with Mothers Against Drunk Driving. It's called Mothers Against the Advancement of Colored People.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Driving
  • Drunk

• I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Women

• For those who want ‘to change life', ‘to reinvent love,’ God is nothing but a hindrance.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life
  • God

• I know if I was a woman I wouldn't want to be a member of an organization that's mostly men.

  

  Bill Owen
  • Men
  • Organization

• Yes, I've seen Louis CK. I wouldn't in any way make a degrading remark about Louis CK, but the question is do I think anyone is funny? And the answer is not too many people. He might fit right in there.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • People
  • Funny
  • Question

• Occupy is anything but a protest movement. That's why it has been so hard for news agencies to express or even discern the 'demands' of the growing legions of Occupy participants around the nation, and even the world.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • World
  • Why
  • Growing

• After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Death
  • Africas
  • Industrialist

• It's better to be hated than ignored.

  

  Kwon Ji-yong Big Bang
  • Hated
  • Ignored

• America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, creativity, innovation, and that's what will get us on the right track now, as well.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • America
  • Responsibility
  • Innovation

• Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.

  

  E. E. Evans-Pritchard

• Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Mean
  • Film
  • Memories

• There are many Africas.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Africas