Beryl Markham Quotes
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.
Beryl Markham
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I love Bridget Fonda.
Rachel Nichols
Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
Wayne Rooney
There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
Ed Harris
I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
Haile Gebrselassie
I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
Damien Chazelle
When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
Maggie Stiefvater
In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
Walter Kirn
What I've been conscious of, from the beginning is that I can't be Jil Sander.
Raf Simons
There are apparently three factors that lead to longevity: heredity, habits, and what your wife will let you get away with.
W. Bruce Cameron
It is not characteristic of American executives to read books, except books on 'management' and mysteries. ... Those who who do venture into this arena ... are looked upon by their colleagues with mingled awe and incredulity.
C. Wright Mills
New York is so serious about the creation of work. Everything is happening so fast, it feels like there's another studio, another session on every block, and I love that.
Diplo
I've been thinking about disowning some of my genes lately. I have a few healthy, happy, long-living optimists in my family tree - most of them fans of Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy, a major champion of positive thinking. But I've got plenty of ancestors who played out more tortured hands.
Ariel Gore
Everything in moderation, like calories.
Jimmy Smits
I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.
Luke Wilson
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
Epictetus
Humor is so culturally based that when I try to tell a joke as me being a white American, if I tell other white Americans, they'll laugh. If I tell an African American, they might not laugh. In fact, they either might not find it funny, or they might find it offensive, and I didn't mean it to be offensive. So these are the sort of little things that build up over time, just like in a marriage. You know, the little things can build up over time.
Michael Emerson
No human pursuit achieves dignity unless it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade, you see that the other things - the experiments, the irrelevant vocations, the vanities you used to hold - were false to you.
Beryl Markham
