Ato Boldon Quotes

This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.

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• Once I finish shooting, I head straight home and spend time with my family. It's only when I have to promote my films that I make public appearances.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Family
  • Home

• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • You
  • More

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.

  

  Tan Le
  • Science
  • Creativity

• There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Man
  • Animals
  • WIld

• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Doing

• I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Accept
  • Mediocrity

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Great
  • Sports
  • Win

• I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Work
  • House
  • Day

• In literature, older women are not often given center stage.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Women
  • Literature
  • Stage

• If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Care
  • Survival

• It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Death
  • Genius
  • Stone

• The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Important
  • Sometimes

• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Knowledge
  • Fashion
  • Wise

• I like throwing snowballs at small children.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Children
  • Small
  • Like

• What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Red

• I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Up
  • Time
  • High

• A woman can be demure, lady-like and the most prim and proper character, and still have a toughness and resiliency as apparent as a superhero-type female character or a warrior or soldier type. It's all about the story, the character, and the course of events in that piece of work and how that character is presented.

  

  Katherine McNamara
  • Work
  • Character
  • Soldier

• I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.

  

  Alonzo Bodden
  • Shut Up
  • Airplanes
  • Sit Down

• Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Needs
  • Books
  • Invention

• This is the best thing that could've happened for the 2011 season - Bolt losing like this and having to go away.

  

  Ato Boldon