Elizabeth May Quotes

We will move the world ahead. We will not wait for U.S. President George W. Bush.

Elizabeth May

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• I don't talk about success. I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Success
  • Know
  • Wait

• There's like ten minutes when it's like, 'Okay, wait, who is this guy again?' And then, you know, I just put on the calculator watch and the glasses, and just be all, you know, inappropriate. And then it just works out fine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Wait

• I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Past

• And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Moving
  • Move
  • Million

• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Best
  • Enemy
  • Wait

• I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • People
  • Wait
  • Late

• I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Travel
  • Move
  • Lot

• Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • First
  • Wait
  • Second

• It's fun to move people musically.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • People
  • Fun
  • Move

• Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I like to move on to the thing I haven't hit a wall on.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Wise

• In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold
  • Truth
  • Wait

• The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Space
  • Challenge
  • Move

• It's better to wait for something that respects you than to go in so low that it diminishes what you've worked for.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Respect
  • Wait
  • Diminish

• I don't go back and look at the monitor between every take; I wait until I feel like we finally got it right: "Let me stop and look at that last one on the monitor."

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Stop
  • Wait
  • Monitor

• Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Today
  • Fire
  • Move

• Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Time
  • Move
  • Get going

• Girls are like apples...the best ones are at the top of the trees. The boys don't want to reach for the good ones because they are afraid of falling and getting hurt. Instead, they just get the rotten apples that are on the ground that aren't as good, but easy. So the apples at the top think there is something wrong with them, when, in reality, they are amazing. They just have to wait for the right boy to come along, the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of the tree.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Afraid
  • Girls
  • Wait

• Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Mind
  • Law
  • Gods

• I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Language
  • Learn
  • Move

• To move into the future, a bit of recklessness is necessary.

  

  Jun Matsumoto Arashi
  • Future
  • Move
  • Recklessness

• You couldn’t begin to imagine who I am, where I’m going, or what I’m about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can’t go anywhere, forward or back. But I’m not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Imagine
  • Move
  • Permission

• Just slip out the back, Jack, make a new plan, Stan, you don't need to be coy, Roy, just get yourself free. Hop on the bus, Gus, you don't need to discuss much, just drop off the key, Lee, and get yourself free.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Free
  • Plan
  • Discuss

• I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Night
  • Honor
  • Fit

• We will move the world ahead. We will not wait for U.S. President George W. Bush.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Move
  • Wait
  • George W. Bush