Gerald Durrell Quotes

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

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• First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Kind
  • First

• I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Spontaneous

• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

  Laura Marano
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Nobody

• I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Country
  • School
  • English

• I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Science
  • Universe
  • Physics

• I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • You
  • Travel
  • Successful

• I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Possible
  • Presidential

• From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • War
  • Day
  • Progress

• I don’t care if you call it AO for Adults Only, or Chopped Liver or Father Goose. Your movie will still have the stigma of being in a category that’s going to be inhabited by the very worst of pictures.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Movie
  • Father

• Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power
  • Words
  • Gay

• They have to have an enemy. They have to create you as their enemy in order for them to continue their existence. It’s very ironic.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Enemy
  • Ironic

• Capital is a coward. It flees from corruption and bad policies, conflict and unpredictability. It shuns ignorance, disease and illiteracy. Capital goes where it is welcomed and where investors can be confident of a return on the resources they have put at risk. It goes to countries where women can work, children can read, and entrepreneurs can dream.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Good
  • Book
  • Friends

• The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • Proud

• Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • English

• The prospect of coaching two of the game's most exciting and decorated players in Sue Bird and Lauren Jackson was incredibly appealing to me, and I look forward to beginning this new chapter in my career.

  

  Anne Donovan
  • Game
  • Career
  • Beginning

• You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

  

  Mary Schmich

• I don't need much sleep.

  

  Marissa Mayer
  • Sleep

• How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!

  

  John Flavel
  • Men
  • Live

• It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Dream

• I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Time
  • Long

• If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

  

  Eleanor Clift
  • Presidents
  • Governors
  • Senators

• In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

  

  Gerald Durrell
  • Die
  • Motto
  • Conservation