Beryl Markham Quotes

If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

Beryl Markham

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Politics
  • Now

• I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Know
  • Worst
  • Cry

• There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • People
  • Know
  • Week

• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Great
  • High

• I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Good Idea

• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Long
  • Society
  • Political

• I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Training

• I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Never
  • Boy
  • Old

• Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Working
  • Police
  • Corrupt

• I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Obsessed
  • Okay
  • Homeland

• I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Together
  • Black
  • Light

• I was a bouncer for ten years in New York City.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • City
  • Years
  • New York

• In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.

  

  Ovid
  • People
  • Kind
  • Leisure

• One of my goals is to play a villain in a Bond film. People ask me if I want to be a Bond girl, and I say, 'No, I want to be the villain.' I'm waiting for that call!

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • People
  • Girl
  • Waiting

• I like my men to be manly, as you'll see from my books.

  

  Louise Mensch
  • Men

• Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Growth
  • Inspired

• Kerouac was the cowboy that inspired the whole Beat Generation, and highlighted and put the spotlight on all of these minds that didn't really know what they were doing at the time, but accomplished something much bigger than what they ever foresaw.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Know
  • Inspired

• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Inspired
  • Guilty
  • Impulse