Dave Beard Quotes

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

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• Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Health

• I never really learned photography.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Never
  • Photography
  • Learned

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Today
  • Study
  • Try

• Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Up
  • Small
  • Stand

• Free Tibet before free trade.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Free
  • Trade
  • Before

• Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mom

• When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.

  

  Fionnula Flanagan
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Work
  • Together
  • Group

• I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Distance

• Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Time

• I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Up

• Well I wasn't going to die. You didn't die of a broken heart, it just felt like you were going to. I knew from personal experience that if you just kept moving, acting as if you weren't bleeding inside you didn't die, and eventually you stopped wanting to.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Heart
  • Experience
  • Die

• A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

  

  Edward Young

• When we started, there were KRAFTWERK and TANGERINE DREAM, and both bands also became very very strong internationally but in a different area, in a different field. They were doing, like, experimental kind of music, and KRAFTWERK were amazing, while we played just traditional rock.

  

  Klaus Meine Scorpions
  • Music
  • Different
  • Dream

• From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Distance

• It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Good

• I've never seen an obese person who has said, 'I am well in my mind.' Happiness stops food being a compensation.

  

  Pierre Dukan
  • Mind
  • Food

• Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!

  

  Craig Robinson
  • Up
  • Comedy

• I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.

  

  Bjorn Lomborg
  • World
  • Friends

• Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Start

• Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • People
  • Book
  • Kids

• When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day's 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach that figure, I try to simply stop and not go on until reaching a natural break. If you just stop while you know what you're going to write next, it's easier to get going again the next day.

  

  Neal Asher
  • Words
  • Stop

• Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.

  

  Dave Beard
  • Words
  • Before
  • Defying