Bill Mollison Quotes

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Bill Mollison

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• If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • World
  • Team
  • Best

• I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Judge
  • Outspoken

• Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Waiting

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Spiritual
  • Start

• If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • America
  • Future
  • Risk

• I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Start

• When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • High
  • Fashion

• TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• The great thing for me about 'The Resurrection of Gavin Stone' is it's a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn't call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Great
  • Family

• We live in a society where everything's packaged.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Live
  • Society
  • Everything

• I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Long
  • Understand
  • Ship

• If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Heart

• The room smelled like a gust of wind from Satan's anus.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Wind
  • Satan

• To me, when I watch movies, it's always fun to watch the bad cop or the bad guy.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Guy

• I have sought, but I seek it vainly,That one lost chord divine,Which came from the soul of the Organ,And entered into mine. It may be that Death's bright angelWill speak in that chord again,It may be that only in HeavenI shall hear that grand Amen.

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • May
  • Soul
  • Death

• If we want America to stay on the cutting edge, we need young Americans to master the tools and technology that will change the way we do just about everything.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Technology
  • Cutting

• I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Free
  • Model

• You just put your head down and do the work.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Work

• We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Friends
  • Kitchen
  • Secure