John Muir Quotes

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

John Muir

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FlowerPowerControlCreationMay

When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

Jo Brand

MoneyHappyNeverStillNurseMuch

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

John Dalberg-Acton

FutureKnowledgePowerSciencePast

I think I'm lucky in life and not just in football. I was very fortunate to play for a great organization and a great team that was really good near the end of my career.

John Elway

LifeGoodGreatFootballTeamThink

In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.

Andrea Barrett

NightStoryBodyOutsideHospital

At various points, I've had a massive chip on me shoulder. I had fights about me accent with loads of those fellers you get from third-class public schools. They used to think I was speaking German.

Sid Waddell

MeThinkYouShoulderUsedGet

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

Trai Byers

WorkDestinyWalkingJustNeeded

Acting is different from stand-up. It gives you this ability to enter into another character, to create another person.

Robin Williams

CharacterYouActingCreatePerson

I love being an actor, especially in movies, because you get to be someone else.

Mason Cook

LoveSomeoneYouMoviesActorGet

There is an interesting scientific dispute about realism and optimism. Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.

Martin Seligman

GoodOptimismPeopleControlThink

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.

Lucy Walker

BestPeopleMeLookingStoryGrow

All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

MoneyValueGivingProblemNothing

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

NeedEverythingPublishAbsolutely

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