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.

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• If you spend your time away from work looking at emails and making sure your inbox went down to zero, that's not an effective way to spend your time as a CEO or an entrepreneur. Often times, those emails aren't that important.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Important

• Honestly, with stats and things like that, I try not to think about them. I just find that the more you think about goals and assists - what you need to do and accomplish - the more you tend to fall short. When you hope for something and you want something, it comes to you.

  

  Alex Morgan
  • Hope
  • Fall
  • Goals

• Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Opportunity

• When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Wish
  • Restaurant

• Because I lost a daughter, eight years old, to cystic fibrosis, I think that anytime that I'm dealing with people who, like Andrea Yeager, are trying to help those sick children, I identify very much with them.

  

  Frank Deford
  • People
  • Children
  • Trying

• My construction business represents 10 or 20 times what I'll ever invest in football. But from the moment I bought the Chargers, I would become forever known as the owner of that NFL franchise.

  

  Alex Spanos
  • Football
  • Invest
  • Chargers

• My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious.

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Religious
  • Southern
  • Baptists

• 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