Beth Revis Quotes

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • School
  • Help
  • Hope

• 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Ordinary
  • Insult

• I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Know
  • Very
  • Computers

• My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Home
  • House
  • Design

• Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Fun
  • Violence
  • Things

• Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Deep

• If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Man
  • Lost
  • Eye

• As self-driving cars become more common, there will be a flood of new legal questions.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Driving
  • Common
  • Questions

• I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Red
  • Celebrity

• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • River
  • Cook

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

  

  Frances Burney

• Science has no prejudices - though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.

  

  Elisha Gray
  • World
  • Men
  • Science

• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

  

  Aesop
  • Shadow

• I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Really, I'm only alive out of curiosity. I'm very curious about where we're all marching.

  

  John Hurt
  • Curiosity

• I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Death
  • Shadow
  • Valley

• It was as if she wanted to take the power away even from the realistic possibility of violent death by reducing it to words, to a form that could be controlled.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Power
  • Death
  • Possibility

• It's easy to lose sight of God when life is sweet and easy, but there is something awesome about despair, and it is the closeness of God when we are at our weakest.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Life
  • God
  • Sweet

• Don Quixote, The Tale of Genji, The Dream of the Red Chamber, the Satyricon, these are the world's major works of prose fiction.

  

  Kenneth Rexroth
  • World
  • Dream
  • Red

• Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Death
  • Stopped