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.

Charles Goodnight

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

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • You
  • Mood
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• 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
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• 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
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• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

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

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Mind
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• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

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

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Help
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  • Software

• I only cook when I'm in love.

  

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

  

  Tanith Lee
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• Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Summer
  • Tree
  • Winter

• O, let America be America again - The land that never has been yet - And yet must be - the land where every man is free.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • America
  • Free

• I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!

  

  Khloe Kardashian
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• I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • World
  • High

• Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Animals
  • Studied

• I think, like all big things, you don't know they're going to be a big thing when you start. You just kind of, like, play because it's fun, and it's interesting, and then it turns out to be way more important than you expected.

  

  Anthony Levandowski
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• 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