Celia Rivenbark Quotes

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

Celia Rivenbark

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• People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

  

  Ed Markey
  • People
  • Money
  • Upside Down

• I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Guy
  • Director
  • Easygoing

• When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Mother
  • Father
  • House

• If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • God
  • Money

• Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • You
  • Running

• Sectarian divide has created a schism in our society that is a major challenge. As monarch of all Bahrainis, it pains me to see many harmed by the actions of a few. And yet I am optimistic and have faith in our people. We all realize that now is the time to strike a balance between stability and gradual reform.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Time
  • Society

• When you're in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you'd look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Walking
  • Smiling

• Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • World
  • Bad
  • True

• The usual bad poem in somebody’s Collected Works is a learned, mannered, valued habit, a habit a little more careful than, and little emptier than, brushing one’s teeth.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Bad
  • Habit

• 'I am of no faith,' said Aenea. 'If one defines faith as belief in the supernatural.'

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Faith
  • Supernatural

• There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Nature
  • Reflection
  • Philosophical

• Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I had serious psoriasis as a child - it's strange that I make my living off my looks after years of looking like a monster.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Serious
  • Monster

• I have so much respect for what's funny.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • Funny
  • Respect

• Everything that works on the Internet depends on a lot of people collaborating, but there's also these rules that you see across all the really successful platforms. Many, many, many more people consume the information or benefit from the information than actually contribute the information.

  

  Jennifer Pahlka
  • People

• I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

  

  Caroll Spinney
  • Soul
  • Bird

• I try to live instinctively. And I guess I've always enjoyed living in a fantasy world, daydreaming. I really do think that dreaming and fantasies are very important to the human psyche and the soul. That's why I want to act.

  

  James Duval
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

  

  Barry Cornwall
  • Friends

• I feel like I came to acting late in a way. I was about 26 or 27, and it was imperative that I make a living right away, and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.

  

  David Duchovny

• I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes—and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Buried

• Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.

  

  Anna Thomas
  • Life
  • Eat
  • Flesh

• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• Girls don't think boys' games are too hard, they think they are stupid.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Girl
  • Stupid
  • Games

• I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.

  

  Celia Rivenbark
  • Running
  • Mean
  • Stupid