Berlie Doherty Quotes

I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.

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• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
  • Power
  • Courage

• My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Myself
  • Open
  • Mail

• And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • Literature
  • Heights

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Relationship
  • Same

• The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Fox
  • Hedgehog

• I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Always
  • Her

• I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Mom
  • Movies
  • Prideful

• We know that flat and non-hierarchical systems use information best. I've tried to do that with my own company because it works better that way. And society at large will work better as well if we can get rid of these old institutions and hierarchies. New innovations like the block chain can make this possible.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Work
  • Society
  • Best

• All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Gold
  • Nothing
  • Loser

• My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Science

• Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Opportunity
  • Film
  • Actor

• As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• I am not meet for petty men, slack their spirit: They know not, they, what day the Chief was made, what hour of the fine day was born the owner, what a beast they keep with its silver head. When we went with Arthur, a sorry strife, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hoar-side.

  

  Taliesin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Sorry

• This is the thing that I was born to do.

  

  Samuel Daniel

• Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Hair
  • Air

• And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautifulThat God alone was to be seen in heaven.

  

  Lord Byron
  • God
  • Alone
  • Heaven

• I try not to worry about my appearance as much as possible.

  

  Ellar Coltrane
  • Worry

• He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Mad

• I'm not saying certain illnesses don't come from genetic baggage and all that. It would be too simplistic to summarize and make it all about emotion, but yeah, so many times, I've been to doctors trying to pinpoint what it was exactly and finally it just went away.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • Trying
  • Emotion
  • Illness

• Yes; as the music changes,Like a prismatic glass,It takes the light and rangesThrough all the moods that pass;Dissects the common carnivalOf passions and regrets,And gives the world a glimpse of allThe colours it forgets.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • World
  • Music
  • Light

• There can be no doubt on the basis of the written and archaeological evidence that the Christianization of the Roman Empire and early medieval Europe involved the destruction of works of art on a scale never before seen in human history.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Evidence
  • Destruction
  • No Doubt

• I met Eva Ibbotson before I became a writer myself, and was in awe of her then.

  

  Berlie Doherty