Bill Mollison Quotes

If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

Bill Mollison

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• I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • True
  • Age

• I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Gender

• As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Literature
  • More

• I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.

  

  Patrick Rafter
  • Great
  • Know
  • Proud

• The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Politics

• I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • House
  • Met
  • Berlin

• When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Think
  • Situation
  • Often

• In Europe, a great dancer might be on the same level as a movie star. In America, not so.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Great
  • America
  • Movie

• One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Stop
  • Day
  • Serious

• I still try to be a feminist in some tiny way.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Way
  • Try
  • Feminist

• I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Great
  • Music
  • Why

• It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Guy

• There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Girl
  • Energy
  • Field

• The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Party
  • Morning

• There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Baby

• There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

  

  H. G. Wells

• If you know yourself, you are doomed.

  

  Alexey Brodovitch
  • Know
  • Yourself
  • Doomed

• Experience yourself in silence.

  

  Erich Schiffmann
  • Experience
  • Silence

• When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I'd shout, 'Ha!' and he'd be on the ground in a headlock.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Boy
  • Wrestling
  • Skills

• I love theater: I can do shows that are completely different from one another. Altar Boyz had heavy dance moves, but also a comic edge to it. And now I'm utilizing all my physical skills: jumping on walls, doing pratfalls and bits and huge takes. My whole show is basically lining up one bit after the next.

  

  Andy Karl
  • Theater
  • Skills
  • Moves

• I sort of feel that the role of a portrait in society is to represent the sitters, we see paintings of Shakespeare and we believe that it is what he looked like, well maybe a little older, fatter and with a higher hairline. I guess it would be cool if the portraits that were painted really did look like the sitter or expressed some sort of emotion that gave the viewers in the future a sense of the sitter's pathos at the time it was painted.

  

  David Kassan
  • Shakespeare
  • Represent
  • Portrait

• If you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Skills
  • Believe In
  • Expressed