George Bird Evans Quotes

The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

George Bird Evans

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• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Getting Better

• Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • New

• The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Communication

• Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Process
  • Sacred
  • Prepare

• I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Music
  • Long
  • Need

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Real
  • Why
  • Simplicity

• Harriet: making an excuse Um... I'm looking for a copy of The Wheat-Free Guide to Creative Visualization in Co-dependent Past-Life Relationships.Mo: Huh. Jeez, I never heard of that one... Wonder if it's in spirituality or cooking.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Life
  • Free
  • Past

• Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.

  

  Protagoras
  • Truth
  • Together

• His plan? To pass out weapons to slaves, so they could overthrow their masters. Suicide.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Suicide

• Let not another's disobedience to Nature become an ill to you; for you were not born to be depressed and unhappy with others, but to be happy with them. And if any is unhappy, remember that he is so for himself; for God made all men to enjoy felicity and peace.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Men
  • Remember

• Fashion starts with fashionable people.

  

  Halston
  • People
  • Fashion

• There's more power in being Oprah Winfrey than in being Barack Obama.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Power
  • Barack

• Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Hope
  • Rest

• Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.

  

  T. Colin Campbell
  • Animal
  • Disease
  • Funny Inspirational

• If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Hope
  • Lessons
  • Knees

• I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film from last year. She's just an amazing actress. And I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.

  

  Virginia Madsen
  • Film
  • Surprise
  • Favorite

• I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

  

  Erma Bombeck

• I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• You cannot make a difference unless you're different.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Different
  • Differences
  • Unless

• The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

  

  George Bird Evans
  • Perfection
  • Autumn
  • Stealing