Zona Gale Quotes

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

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• When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Movie
  • High
  • Black

• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Conditions
  • Hold

• I love India so much. It's sort of the most chaotic but also disciplined place at the same time. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm ready to rock and roll.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Time
  • Like
  • Place

• The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Diamonds

• Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Why
  • Need
  • One Word

• But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Generation
  • News

• You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Moving
  • Content

• I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I. I must say that so often in earlier times when I saw people of the lower classes, simple manual laborers who could believe so rightly with their hearts, I always envied them, and now tell me how does one begin this?

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Simple

• Just being attached to 'Superman' actually gave a great boost to my career.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great
  • Career
  • Superman

• Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Scary

• It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • World

• Your next SMS will probably be around longer, and remain more legible, than your tombstone. For, unlike your tombstone or even your mortal coil, your texts may be worth something.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • May
  • Tombstone

• Something I really hate more than anything else is clogs.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Hate

• In the United States in the 20th century, every major event that America was going through, there was a boxer who seemed to symbolically represent it, from slavery to the Vietnam War to the Depression - all the way along, you just seemed to have boxers that carried the narrative.

  

  Brin-Jonathan Butler
  • America
  • War
  • Depression

• I was able to realize that I definitely want to make sure that I use my voice, as it gets bigger and bigger, in the world for good.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • World
  • Good

• A lot of people who work with Dre, you're lucky if anything sees the light of day.

  

  Anderson Paak
  • People
  • Work
  • Light

• I'd love to have tea and scones with the Queen; she's my idol.

  

  Agyness Deyn
  • She
  • Tea

• Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • World
  • Listening

• Whatever the eventual judgment, the political implications of Hutton are already clear. A devastating indictment of Labour in power - and of our political system itself.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Power
  • Political

• Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Work
  • Book
  • History

• My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Attention
  • Imagination
  • Habit

• I know most Americans don't have this luxury, but we are in Los Angeles and are lucky enough to be able to grill outside almost all year long. It's my favorite way of preparation because it's so clean and it gives it such a great flavor. You need very little oil and the protein can be really cleanly prepared and perfectly cooked.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • Great
  • Long
  • Preparation

• Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

  

  David Deida
  • Good
  • Long
  • Purpose

• I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

  

  Zona Gale
  • Preparation
  • Digestion