Colin Fletcher Quotes

Organisms themselves are relatively transient entities through which materials and energy flow and eventually return to the environment.

Colin Fletcher

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• At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Phase
  • Autographs

• Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Money
  • Lost
  • Wealth

• E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Fighting
  • See

• My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Writing
  • Happy

• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Experience
  • Out
  • Harvard

• I never expected to make a lot of money from music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Money
  • Never

• I wanted to get into films, and my parents were against it. I convinced my mom, and finally she convinced my dad. My dad then felt, who best to launch his son than him? So he launched me, and here I am.

  

  Vijay
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Drama
  • Plan
  • Ever

• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Wish
  • Ideas

• My first job as premier will be to go back to basics.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Job
  • First
  • Basics

• I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

  

  Ed Skrein
  • Good
  • Like
  • Wall

• I was obsessed with Lil' Bow Wow growing up, and you couldn't see the white of my walls because they were plastered with his photos. This is even more embarrassing: I had a notebook full of facts about Bow Wow and different pictures. I basically made a biography notebook about him and his life when he was, like, 13.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • History
  • New
  • Tech

• What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Different
  • Science
  • Dad

• Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • Experience
  • Reality

• The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

  

  Alva Myrdal
  • Men
  • Peace
  • Present

• The Texas thing is such a big deal because whenever I see Texas in a TV show, they always show slow-moving cattle and cowboys with the hats. I wanted to show that Texas isn't a stereotype.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Moving
  • Texas

• I grew up playing sports, and my dad was always really into that, very passionate about that, as was I, but even my passion for music far outweighs what it was for sports. That's hard for me to believe. And it's hard for me to believe that my parents' passion for music far outweighs their passion for sports, but it does.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Question

• I hate thinking about writer's block! I don't have writer's block much, knock on wood, but if I do, I think it's usually because I haven't done enough research and am therefore unable to create a fully realized world.

  

  Cynthia Kadohata
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Done

• Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

  

  Epes Sargent
  • Individuals
  • Sacrifices
  • Republics

• I force myself to outline, but not too closely, so I guess I plot by the seat of my pants? My natural instinct is to dive right in, but I know I'll get stuck. I like to stick with the architect vs. gardener metaphor. I guess I'm a gardener who plants tomatoes. I have the sticks in the ground and let the vines grow along those parameters.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Myself
  • Grow
  • Plants

• I think I need to be taken away, dropped in some territory with just a lot of loud guys.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Taken

• Organisms themselves are relatively transient entities through which materials and energy flow and eventually return to the environment.

  

  Colin Fletcher
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Return