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

• Social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It's the people that matter, not the venue. So when the trend leaders of one social niche or another decide the place everyone is socializing has lost its luster or, more important, its exclusivity, they move on to the next one, taking their followers with them.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Important
  • Lost

• I'm pretty healthy, most of the time.

  

  Jaimie Alexander
  • Time
  • Pretty

• When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

  

  Joel Coen
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Job

• I'm a lazy writer. My idea of heaven is not writing. On the other hand, I'm obviously compulsive about it.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Writing
  • Ideas
  • Heaven

• I'm a pretty intense person at the racetrack, but when I'm not thinking about my race car or in the garage doing my job, I'm pretty laid back, and I like to be organized and do normal things.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Pretty

• 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