Luther Burbank Quotes
The essential basis of life itself, namely, protoplasm, is a substance composed largely of water and having the physical constitution of a viscid liquid.
Quotes to Explore
-
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
-
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
-
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
-
I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
-
There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
-
I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
-
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
-
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
-
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
-
The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
-
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
-
I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
-
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
-
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
-
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
-
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
-
Most companies don't have the luxury of focusing exclusively on innovation. They have to innovate while stamping out zillions of widgets or processing billions of transactions.
-
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.
-
The middle aged madonnacalls her neighbor on the phone.Day by day, the seasons passand leave her life alone.But she'll go walking out that dooron some bright afternoonto go and paint big citiesfrom a lonely attic room. - Middletown Dreams (1985)
-
I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.
-
It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.
-
The essential basis of life itself, namely, protoplasm, is a substance composed largely of water and having the physical constitution of a viscid liquid.
