Mary Beard Quotes

I was nearly struck by lightning on an excavation in Turkey.

Mary Beard

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I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.

Joanne Liu

MyselfFindBoringAlwaysBecause

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

Jennifer Coolidge

ImprovBackgroundDifferentStand-Up

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Maurice Greene

SportsFootballBaseballBasketball

When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British.

Steve Jurvetson

SpaceTexasBetterUpLordGamers

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you.

Toni Servillo

LifeNatureBeautyDailySeaDeath

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

Robert Burns

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It is the forces of the universe that make human beings fall ill. Having learnt to recognize how sun qualities and moon qualities live in plants, animals and minerals, we discover how we can find counterforces and also individual natural forces that point us towards medicines for specific internal illnesses.

Rudolf Steiner

LiveSunMoonPlantsUniverseFall

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

ChildrenMeWhyAcceptMoreNever

People get excited around me and behave differently than they would normally. I don't feel different from anyone else, except that I drive a racing car round in circles faster than somebody else.

Michael Schumacher

CarPeopleMeDriveFeelRacing

If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.

Jonathan Levine

ActionCameraAttentionYouKnow

I'm honest.

Jorja Smith

Honest

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

Britt Ekland

RightYearsDaysLeftGotFour

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