Celia Rees Quotes

You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

Celia Rees

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• I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Winning

• How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • American
  • Career
  • Woman

• A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Good
  • Politics
  • Journalism

• Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Quality
  • Democracy
  • Achievement

• The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Environment

• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Hard
  • Exposure

• An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Up
  • Business
  • Growth

• Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Sweet
  • Listen

• 'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Great
  • True
  • Reality

• One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • English

• All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • May
  • Poetry

• The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Gold
  • Logic

• And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.

  

  Lorenz Hart
  • Earth
  • Lost
  • Die

• A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

  

  Claud Cockburn

• To go from 'Generation Kill,' which is a very real, dark, gritty series, to 'True Blood,' which is flamboyant, crazy, way out there... I couldn't ask for two better jobs.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Real
  • True
  • Crazy

• I let the dunks speak for themselves.

  

  Blake Griffin

• When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• If you simply put your faith in Jesus coming down in flesh, through a human being, God becoming flesh living on the earth, dying on the cross for the sins of the world, being buried, and being raised from the dead - yours and mine and everybody else's problems will be solved.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• I think that people can have their hand in as many different things as they want. You've just got to put your mind to it and just do it.

  

  Jessie James Decker
  • People
  • Different
  • Mind

• I like to consider myself a star - a star, that when you look in the sky, it's always there. And on a clear night... a shooting star comes by, and get a little thrill, and you make a little wish. You need both types of stars, the shooting and the constant stars. The heavens include them all.

  

  James Belushi
  • Night
  • Wish
  • Star

• The absence of words is the absence of intimacy. There are experiences that are starved for language.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Words
  • Language
  • Intimacy

• You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.

  

  Celia Rees
  • Wish
  • Luck
  • Curse