Beryl Markham Quotes
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
Quotes to Explore
-
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
-
Society becomes how we behave.
-
I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
-
He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
-
If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
-
I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
-
I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
-
A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
-
I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
-
It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.
-
People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
-
You're only as good as your last haircut.
-
Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
-
When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.
-
I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
-
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
-
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
-
Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
-
The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
-
Leaves and bark, leaves and bark, To lean against and hear in the dark. Petals I may have once pursued. Leaves are all my darker mood.
-
I do think it's important, if you're going to be very creative, to be a seeker.
-
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
-
I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up.
-
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
