Christopher Ricks Quotes
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.Christopher Ricks
Quotes to Explore
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Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
Patrick Carney The Black Keys -
Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.
Ma Ying-jeou -
We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
Ramez Naam -
We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-Pain -
Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.
Randeep Hooda -
I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
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Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
Caitlin Moran -
I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
Rachel Nichols -
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
E. L. Konigsburg -
Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.
Danger Mouse -
I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
Walter Isaacson -
Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett
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Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie -
One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
Kate Grenville -
When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!
Taylor Handley -
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead -
It takes two guys on a team to do very well in the end and be successful.
Ed Belfour -
I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it's a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
Sachin Tendulkar
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One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.
Vijay Mallya -
A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.
Martin Compston -
Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
N. T. Wright -
My voice is rather quirky. It's abysmally low. People often think I'm putting it on at first. Think drunk Darth Vader. Or Barry White singing country. It suits my dark material. When I do readings, I really play it up and go subterranean. I can make the phone book sound terrifying.
Benjamin Percy -
I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
Ralph Fiennes -
When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Christopher Ricks