Christopher Columbus Quotes

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

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• The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Creativity
  • Efficiency

• My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • Good
  • School
  • Parents

• 'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Times
  • Drive
  • Sophisticated

• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Dedication
  • Soviet

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Wonder
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

  

  Lactantius
  • Energy
  • Reflection
  • Intelligence

• In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Girl
  • Feel
  • Fat

• I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Want
  • Black
  • Me

• I have been luckier than anyone I know or even heard of. I had a very happy childhood, a good education, I enjoyed working as a teacher, journalist and author. I have loved a wonderful man for over 33 years, and I believe he loves me, too.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Happy

• If you have less weight, you have less strength.

  

  Ilya Ilyin
  • You
  • Strength
  • Weight

• I was scared to fly for a long time.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Time
  • Long
  • Fly

• Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Always
  • Greatest

• Writing can be a tough gig. Whenever you do something in which you put yourself out there - if that becomes the focus of your life, you miss the point of living. You've really got to get the grounding of family and the things that are important in your life and make that your focus.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • Life
  • Important
  • Writing

• You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • You
  • Word
  • Be Careful

• I have not mutated myself in any way.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Way
  • Myself
  • Any

• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Children
  • Food

• I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I've sold more magazines than any man alive.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Why
  • Man
  • Alive

• In England, success in the profession of the law leads to some very great objects of ambition; and yet how few men, born to easy fortunes, have ever in this country been emminent in that profession?

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great
  • Men
  • Country

• It's almost like the psychology of a film is no different from the psychology of a person in that it has to function, it has to breathe, it has to have its releases, it has anxiety.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Different
  • Anxiety
  • Breathe

• I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Quality
  • Generosity
  • Defensive

• Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

  

  Thomas More
  • Public
  • Office
  • Campaigns

• I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Small
  • Hate
  • Space

• I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

  

  Christopher Columbus