Antonio Machado Quotes
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
Barry Ritholtz
-
Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Uma Thurman
-
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
Manuel Puig
-
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
Karen Armstrong
-
Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
Fidel Castro
-
Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
Cam Newton
-
I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
Sam Heughan
-
Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
Pat Robertson
-
You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
Yotam Ottolenghi
-
Lady Diana Spencer looked to relatively unknown designers - David and Elizabeth Emanuel, recently graduated from the Royal College of Art - when she wed Prince Charles in 1981.
Hamish Bowles
-
When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
Wallace Shawn
-
People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
Waris Ahluwalia
-
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden
-
In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
Jacki Weaver
-
Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca
-
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
P. G. Wodehouse
-
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
-
Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
Ted Nugent
-
Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
Hansika Motwani
-
I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.
Genevieve Valentine
-
Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Garrison Keillor
-
Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
Patricia Cornwell
-
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith
-
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
Antonio Machado