Gerald Durrell Quotes
I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
Quotes to Explore
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.
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If I think of something, half-way into it, I can throw it in there and it won't be so far down the line that it would be insignificant. However, I also like to completely focus on something for a certain period of time, and then be able to move on to something else.
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I enjoy playing villains - I'm very proud that I belong to a very honorable tradition of British actors who come to Hollywood to play the bad guys. At some point in American film, I think there was the idea that the British accent had a tone to it that's a little bit naughty.
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The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
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My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.
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Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your friends that you know how to tell the truth.
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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
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Wherever there are ski resorts there will be daily updates. These will mostly relay information that is relevant to skiers - imminent snowfall, the likelihood of avalanches and so on - but it will also offer advice on any storm fronts that are expected. For anybody planning a trek, this is crucial information.
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When two, or more men, know of one and the same fact, they are said to be CONSCIOUS of it one to another; which is as much as to know it together.
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A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.
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All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.
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He who kisses girl on hillside is not level.
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Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.
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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
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To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves.
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You don't get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.
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Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.
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The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb.
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I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.
