Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

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• Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • World
  • Country
  • Game

• I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Black
  • Me
  • Nice

• Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Acting
  • Boring

• If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Failure
  • Child
  • Parent

• I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Teacher
  • Yoga
  • Swim

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Service

• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Nice
  • Crazy
  • Swimming

• We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Option
  • Credit
  • Calling

• Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.

  

  Manfred Mann
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Afraid
  • Shoot
  • Heights

• It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Life
  • Different
  • America

• I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • American
  • Justice

• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Selfish

• I work out in the gym three times a week on top of my dancing, so I have to eat a lot to keep my weight and energy up: a big breakfast, and little and often throughout the day.

  

  Anton du Beke
  • Up
  • Work
  • Energy

• I asked my husband if he was surprised by all the #MeToo stories. 'Yeah, I'm surprised,' he said. Ask any woman, they're not surprised. It's been going on for years.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • Husband

• I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.

  

  Eric Whitacre
  • Christian
  • Atheist

• The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Interesting
  • Nice
  • Pain

• True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Real
  • True
  • Strong

• It was one of those dreams that invade the space between seconds, proving sleep has its own physics- where time shrinks and swells, lifetimes unspool in a blink, and cities burn to ash in a mere flutter of lashes.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Space

• India is for me a difficult country. It isn’t my home and cannot be my home; and yet I cannot reject it or be indifferent to it; I cannot travel only for the sights. I am at once too close and too far.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Country
  • Home
  • Travel

• There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

  

  Kate Douglas Wiggin
  • Travel
  • Inspiring
  • Away