Bill Mollison Quotes

Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

Bill Mollison

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• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Mother

• It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Justice
  • Charity

• Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Political

• Spirituality isn't a luxury. It's a must.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Good

• You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  

  Andrew Denton
  • Work
  • Comedy

• I'm not always 'Dominick Cruz, Tough Guy.' Depression runs in my bloodline.

  

  Dominick Cruz
  • Guy
  • Depression

• I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

  

  Maud Welzen

• The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Trying
  • Truth

• We're used to shooting our own stuff on our cellphones. We're used to capturing everything.

  

  Eloise Mumford

• I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.

  

  Chris Young
  • Music
  • Song

• Modelling is completely different from acting. They are two skills that you can't compare.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Different

• No one's raising children any more. To love a child, you've got to work for it. You have to change its diapers and feed it at night!

  

  Lauren Hutton
  • Work
  • Children
  • Night

• Alas! that Christians should stand at the door of eternity having more work upon their hands than their time is sufficient for, and yet be filling their heads and hearts with trifles.

  

  John Flavel
  • Time
  • Work
  • Door

• We'll be really tight by the time we get down there to you guys. Everyone will have a really good time. It's trite to say thanks to the fans, but we really mean it. We look forward to rocking everyone's socks off.

  

  Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
  • Time
  • Good
  • Really

• I remember when I was 14, I went to race in Hungary, and I went to a concert, and they were playing Bob Marley songs, and I thought, "Wow, this guy is so special." It's Marley every time.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Different
  • Thinking

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Want
  • Story

• We really didn't devote a lot of time to investigating the scariest aspects of our flight. It was more challenging and productive to concentrate on the remedies, and leave things that couldn't be solved to happen without thinking about them. There is a morbid human curiosity associated with tragic death-producing events. Though naturally, this needs to be kept in perspective.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Death

• Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror, glaring helplessly at the frightful thing which was hunting him down. But that cry of pain from the hound had blown all our fears to the winds. If he was vulnerable he was mortal, and if we could wound him we could kill him. Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Hands
  • Horror
  • Moonlight

• Permaculture is something with a million heads. It's a way of thinking which is already loose, and you can't put a way of thinking back in the box.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Thinking
  • Heads
  • Permaculture