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.

Charles Fletcher Lummis

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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 only watch the last 40 seconds. Watching a whole marathon over time, the beginning, middle and end look very slow. I want to see action! I can't help it.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Time
  • Help
  • Action

• The fabric of my life is under my skin; but it's definitely not something that comes up in a conscious way when I read material. I have an incredible relationship with my mom, so I'm fascinated by mothers who do not have that. But I've never done anything that resembled my life. People always jump to that conclusion, and I wish life were that simple, but it's not.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Relationship
  • My Life
  • Conscious

• I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Most bankers dwell in marble halls,Which they get to dwell in because they encourage deposits and discourage withdrawals,And particularly because they all observe one rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it,Which is you must never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Money

• Men can't do much to change; we have to wear suits, although I never wear a tie, apart from in Asia sometimes. So I decided to grow my hair.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Men
  • Change
  • Hair

• 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