Charles Fletcher Lummis Quotes

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

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• I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Personality
  • Safety

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hero
  • Last
  • Every

• I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

  

  Jack Kilmer
  • Future
  • Down
  • Plan

• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Hard

• Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • People
  • Music
  • Problem

• Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Like
  • Body
  • Your Body

• The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Universe
  • Evolution
  • Product

• I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Time
  • Think
  • Better

• I don't try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Good
  • Want
  • Sexy

• I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • World
  • Great
  • Book

• People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • People
  • Win
  • Sick

• I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

  

  Imani Hakim
  • Different
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • True
  • Man

• We should realise that Hollywood is not obliged to write roles for Asian actors.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Write
  • Hollywood
  • Asian

• It's cool that I'm 20 and am on the cover of the video game. A lot of kids play hockey, and a few get drafted, and only a few get to be on the cover. It's a great feeling.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Kids
  • Game

• I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Time
  • Me
  • Shoes

• I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Up
  • Love
  • Home

• I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

  

  John Howard
  • People
  • Action
  • Taken

• My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Book
  • Simple

• What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses.

  

  David Baker
  • Book

• The cloud scalability is just amazing. So if you are, as an example, an NGO, a social enterprise, if you really want to scale the world, the cloud is just amazing.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • World
  • Amazing

• In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Democracy
  • Laws

• Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

  

  Charles Fletcher Lummis
  • Writing
  • Book
  • House