Charles Goodnight Quotes

Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Old
  • Lucky

• I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Sound
  • Classic
  • Describe

• Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Book
  • Culture
  • Training

• The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • You
  • Mood
  • Sit

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Space

• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Growth
  • Ambition
  • Proceeds

• An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Mind
  • Feels
  • Praise

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Look
  • Lazy
  • Window

• I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Writing
  • Know
  • Hip Hop

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Great
  • Experience

• At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Help
  • Process
  • Software

• I only cook when I'm in love.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Love
  • Only
  • Cook

• I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Great
  • Want
  • Sex

• Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • God
  • Done

• 'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Good
  • She
  • Teacher

• He was a revealing symbol. He called himself passive-aggressive. There was self-pity, whining. There was a diminishment, a diminution. He was sitting there in his sweater, hunched over his guitar, looking like a little lost boy. Compare that with the great figures of my generation: Jimi Hendrix. Pete Townshend. Keith Richards.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Boy

• We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • People
  • Art
  • Culture

• Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Hope
  • Lost
  • Desire

• The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.

  

  Jeff Greenfield
  • Life
  • Up
  • Heaven

• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership

• Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.

  

  Charles Goodnight
  • Lost
  • Instinct
  • Compass