Colin Fletcher Quotes

I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

Colin Fletcher

• Walking
• Become
• Addiction
• Madness
• Sanity

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• The British have always made terrible parents.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Parents
  • Always
  • British

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Done
  • Wonder
  • Tough

• Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Different
  • Free
  • News

• Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Worried
  • Troubled
  • Attorney

• And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Night
  • City
  • Thought

• We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

  

  E. B. White
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Laundry

• For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school.

  

  Kate Bush
  • School
  • Responsibility
  • Child

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Dreams

• 'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Actor
  • Conversation

• I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Kingdom

• I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Why
  • Truth

• You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Cats

• Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Understand
  • Young
  • Social

• I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Character
  • Fashion

• I love design.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Love
  • Design
  • I Love

• It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Time
  • True
  • Free

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Beautiful

• We, as adults, are the gatekeepers, and we have to check our own fears at the door because we want our children to be smarter than we are. We want them to be more fully human than we are.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Children
  • Door

• I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'

  

  Kenny Leon
  • Job
  • Fences

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• I had better admit right away that walking can in the end become an addiction ... even in this final stage it remains a delectable madness, very good for sanity, and I recommend it with passion.

  

  Colin Fletcher
  • Walking
  • Become
  • Addiction