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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• Stealing
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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

• 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

• 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

• Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

  

  Aristotle
  • Everyday
  • Fool
  • Affairs

• I'm just very good at pretending.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Good

• We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed only by myth-making, only by becoming 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbour, while materialistic 'progress' leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • God
  • Perfection
  • Error

• Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Perfection
  • Faults
  • Rivalry

• There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.

  

  Clement Freud
  • Age
  • Law
  • Coffee

• 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