Colin Fletcher Quotes

Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

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• In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Time
  • Society
  • Changes

• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Great
  • City
  • New York

• I am such a political person.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Political
  • Person

• I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Perfect
  • Decision
  • Daughter

• I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Books
  • Romance

• There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

  

  T-Pain
  • People
  • Money
  • Leave

• A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Army

• People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.

  

  Lawrence Wright
  • People
  • Time

• Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Friends
  • Comedy

• That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.

  

  Lewis Mumford

• How was I supposed to know?She was slowly letting go?If I was puttin her through her hell,Hell I couldn't tell.She could've given me a sign,Could've opened up my eyes.How was I supposed to see?She never cried in front of me.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Up
  • She
  • Eyes

• I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Important
  • Art
  • Respect

• I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.

  

  Jessica Savitch
  • Life
  • Success

• Most diets would have you cutting things out from your diet; they are about denial and discipline.

  

  Kathy Freston
  • Discipline
  • Cutting

• I'm very staid compared to my students, actually.

  

  Kathy Acker

• We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit.

  

  David E. Sanger
  • Great
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management.

  

  Brian Epstein
  • Management

• Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading.

  

  Curtis Hanson
  • Important
  • Character
  • Wonder

• Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do is everything you possibly can to enhance your probabilities of being right more often than being wrong.

  

  William Browne
  • Science
  • Natural
  • Social

• Big doors swing on little hinges.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Doors
  • Big
  • Swing

• Creativity is down the tube. And people give a lot of lip service to individuality. I know they all appreciate it, but they all say they would like to do it, but they don't want to work at it, and it doesn't come out of the sky.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Work
  • Service

• Under most conditions, the best roof for your bedroom is the sky. This commonsense arrangement saves weight, time, energy, and money.

  

  Colin Fletcher
  • Sky
  • Bedroom
  • Roof