Beryl Markham Quotes

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.

Beryl Markham

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• I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Little

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Problems
  • Face
  • Mature

• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Books

• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Change
  • Environment
  • Never

• But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Work
  • Comedy
  • Always

• Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Quiet
  • Shy

• Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Where
  • Temple
  • Shall

• It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Me
  • Choices
  • Consequences

• It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Competition
  • Ride
  • Canada

• Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

  

  Igor Luksic
  • Mind
  • Strong
  • Voice

• As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Love
  • Rich

• Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Me
  • Perfect
  • Film

• 'This is Alvin Smith,' said Cooper. 'He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.'

  

  Orson Scott Card

• I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

  

  Frances Burney

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• Not to feel exasperated, or defeated, or despondent because your days aren't packed with wise and moral actions. But to get back up when you fail, to celebrate behaving like a human-however imperfectly-and fully embrace the pursuit that you've embarked on. (Hays translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Moral
  • Wise

• The more rocking, the better.

  

  Patty Smyth

• Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Hope
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• Your greatest need is not a spouse. Your greatest need is to be delivered from the wrath of God - and that has already been accomplished for you through the death and resurrection of Christ. So why doubt that God will provide a much, much lesser need? Trust His sovereignty, trust His wisdom, trust His love.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • God
  • Why
  • Death

• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  

  John Milton
  • Life
  • Death
  • Faithful

• That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Death
  • Curiosity