Dana Gould Quotes

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

Dana Gould

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• Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Dream
  • Boring
  • Ever

• Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Movies
  • Successful
  • Stars

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Truth
  • Think

• 'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Think
  • inspirational
  • Sky

• But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

  

  Ted Rall
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Community

• The slugs are ascending this steep city staircase that leads up to a huge Catholic church, essentially signifying their slow crawl towards death. The work reminds us of religion, mortality, natural decay, and the slow suffocation of commercialized societies.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Death

• It's always a thrill to wear the flag and ride for Canada in any competition, but especially the Olympics.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Competition
  • Ride
  • Canada

• I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Red
  • Celebrity

• I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • River
  • Cook

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant

• Men think for themselves when they’re men.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Men

• We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Wife
  • Advice

• Outlaw consciousness is born the moment I drop out, stop the world, cease being an actor identified with the mythic roles I have been playing in society. Change begins when I do nothing except observe. The wisdom of the railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen. Meditation is the healthy form of voyeurism.

  

  Sam Keen
  • World
  • Society
  • Stop

• Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• The start of 2016 offers great promise as the world awakens to the power of connectivity and increasing digitization. The new Digital Age is upon us, and it is unlike anything we have experienced before.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • World
  • Great
  • Power

• No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Yourself
  • Potential
  • Surgeon

• When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

  

  Dana Gould
  • Death
  • Found
  • Fearing