Katherine Cecil Thurston Quotes

Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

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• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Opponent
  • Aggression

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Game

• Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Congress

• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Young
  • Danger

• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Leader
  • Try
  • Compliment

• All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Past
  • Creativity

• Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

  

  Ed Wood
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Successful

• When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it'll happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You'll have to figure that out for yourself!

  

  B. B. King
  • God
  • Sleep
  • Yourself

• I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Children
  • Right

• It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Time
  • Power

• I saw a documentary on the Naadam festival that happens in Mongolia during the summer. One of the features of it is a horse race across the plains that all the young men enter - some as young as 12 years old. It's such a spectacular sight. It's incredible to think that this is a tradition that has been going on for centuries.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Men
  • Summer
  • Horse

• She said I was afraid of success, which may in fact be true, because I have a feeling that fufilling my potential would really cut into my sittin' around time.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Time
  • May
  • She

• This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Good
  • Memories
  • Sad

• Usually we have pick-up shots to film after all the main work is done; sometimes we even do them after our wrap party. Just like when you're packing up and moving, it's the little things that end up taking the most time, and there is no romance in the clean up.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.

  

  Kevin Powers
  • Writing

• Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Gold

• If Sean doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Artistic
  • Glimpse
  • Sean

• A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.

  

  Michael Steinhardt
  • Humility
  • Accepting
  • Inability

• Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.

  

  Katherine Cecil Thurston
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Brain