Zona Gale Quotes

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

Zona Gale

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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

• I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Interesting
  • Know
  • Look

• 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

• I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Wonder

• 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

• My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • Thinking
  • American
  • America

• 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
  • Slavery

• 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

• In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Arms
  • Justification
  • Restrictions

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of my preparation. I really fell into it the way one should fall into it, you know - through love.

  

  Clark Blaise
  • Experience
  • Fall
  • Preparation

• I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Understanding

• Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Life is
  • Preparation
  • Genuine

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

  

  Zona Gale
  • Preparation
  • Digestion