Celia Rees Quotes

There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

Celia Rees

• Heaven
• Hands
• Force
• Flower
• Creation
• Patterns
• Levers

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• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Voice

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
  • Close
  • West

• Insults are the business of the court.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Business
  • Court
  • Insults

• Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Art
  • Political
  • Education

• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Stop

• Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Best

• Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Look

• I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Feeling
  • Looking
  • Turn

• To see things in the seed, that is genius.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • See
  • Genius
  • Seed

• When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering the bad circumstances under which I had left the team and that I had been away for four years.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Years

• Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Live
  • Die
  • Rest

• Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.

  

  Arianna Huffington
  • People
  • Believe
  • Creativity

• The government may be made up of clever, sensible people. But if they do not believe in basic human values, the more clever or shrewd they are the greater the tragedy they will create.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• As I sit here writing and look across the room at Janice, I keep thinking of the most heartbreaking question: which of us will go first?

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Question

• You know, 'Mad Men' is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Men
  • Mad

• I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Hope
  • Heaven

• The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Fear

• There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Children
  • Heaven

• I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation - and potentially controversy.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Great
  • Feel
  • Conversation

• Here's one, here's one! When my boyfriend and I have sex, his penis sometimes slips out!

  

  Ben Gillies Silverchair
  • Sex
  • Boyfriend
  • Penis

• There are patterns in everything, in the whole of Nature, from the way the stars turn in the heavens to the whorl of a shell or the petals of a flower and the way leaves arrange themselves about a twig. There are forces, hidden forces. If I can discover what they are, how they operate, I will have my hands upon the levers of creation and can work them myself.

  

  Celia Rees
  • Heaven
  • Hands
  • Force