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

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

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Up

• A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

  

  Edward Young

• 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

• Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

  

  Aminatta Forna

• As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

  

  Ann Rinaldi
  • Up
  • World
  • War

• For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Up
  • God
  • Art

• I had as much time to prepare for that moon landing as NASA did, and I still was speechless when it happened. It just was so awe-inspiring to actually be able to see the thing through the television that was a miracle in itself.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Moon
  • Television

• Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Great
  • Men
  • She

• Words mean what they're generally believed to mean. When Charles II saw Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral for the first time, he called it "awful, pompous, and artificial." Meaning roughly: Awesome, majestic, and ingenious.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Time
  • Words
  • Mean

• I think that the corporation is running it and will always make it appeal to the lowest common denominator. I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Running

• 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