Walter Darby Bannard Quotes

If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.

Walter Darby Bannard

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• What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Artists

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Friend
  • Years
  • Sad

• The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Paper

• I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Dark
  • Wonder

• Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Death
  • Daily
  • Breakfast

• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

  

  Edith Head
  • Good
  • She
  • Black

• I think that what we need to do is say, 'Reading is going to really affect your life.' You take a black man who doesn't have a job, but you say to him, 'Look, you can make a difference in your child's life, just by reading to him for 30 minutes a day.' That's what I would like to do.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Job
  • Black

• Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Truth
  • Care
  • Circumstances

• For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Me
  • Young

• We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Focus
  • Insignificant
  • Till

• Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Character
  • Science

• Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside, And naked on the Air of Heaven ride, Were't not a Shame - were't not a Shame for him In this clay carcase crippled to abide?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Why
  • Soul
  • Heaven

• A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Live
  • Business

• I think everyone should go on my diet. It's called the Fuck It Diet. Basically what it is, is if I want to eat something but it has a lot of fat or carbs, I just take a moment, and I go within, and I say 'Fuck it' and I eat it. You have to do it 6 times a day. It works really well with the Fuck That Shit Exercise Program.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Exercise

• Oatmeal indeed supplies the common people of Scotland with the greatest and best part of their food, which is in general much inferior to that of their neighbours of the same rank in England.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Food

• I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Water
  • Yoga

• A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

  

  Dalai Lama

• I only really like to watch things like 'Time Team.' I'd rather be out walking the dog. It's all reality TV, which, as an actor, I detest.

  

  Kevin Whately
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Team

• Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

  

  David Eagleman
  • Reality
  • Brain

• I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.

  

  Ashley Greene
  • Friends
  • Reality

• If you learn something too well, it will get in the way of your perception of reality.

  

  Walter Darby Bannard
  • Reality
  • Perception
  • Wells