Beryl Markham Quotes

There are many Africas.

Beryl Markham

• Africas

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Heaven
  • Chinese
  • River

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

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Me
  • Courage

• In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Children
  • Black
  • Community

• 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

• We shall therefore assume the complete physical equivalence of a gravitational field and a corresponding acceleration of the reference system.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Systems
  • Assume
  • Acceleration

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

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • Death
  • Africas
  • Industrialist

• Of course I am aware that there is a level of sexism in any large institution, but I find, in television and film, most of the producers are women.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Women

• Well, I'm not afraid to say something if I think it's funny, even if it's harsh or racist.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Funny
  • Say
  • Racist

• She said, tell me, are you a Christian, child? I said, Ma'am, I am tonight.

  

  Marc Cohn
  • Christian
  • Tonight

• There are many Africas.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Africas