Mary Leakey Quotes

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

Mary Leakey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 6, 1913 - December 9, 1996

Topics

LiveKeep GoingStupidYouHealthy

I like being a storyteller. I'm bored with myself; I like to write about others. I have a lot of names in my songs: Karen, Margaret, Mary Kay. Even if it's about me, I want to put it through someone else. The music is the soundtrack to the story.

Jill Sobule

MusicMyselfMeStorySomeoneWant

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

Michael Gerber

WorkBusinessJobEntrepreneurFirst

I've never had an empty house. Ever.

Meredith Monk

HouseNeverEmptyEverHad

SpaceX lowered the cost of going into space by 10x.

Steve Jurvetson

SpaceCostGoingLowered

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

Rush Limbaugh

SimpleLawProblemCrimeWayObey

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

Monica Bellucci

SoulThoughtActorWorks

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Joyce Meyer

LifeTruthGreatAlwaysQuestBeen

If you feel inside you are a woman, be a woman - no one can take that away from you, man. No one can make that feeling go away. If that's what you need to do to be complete, then no one has the right to tell you you can't do that.

Jonathan Davis

WomanManFeelYouFeelingGo

How does a poet teach himself or herself? I think chiefly by imitation, chiefly by practising it as a deliberate technical exercise often. Translation, imitation, those were my methods anyway.

Derek Walcott

ThinkExerciseTeachImitationPoet

I live in Minnesota. Lots of people assume that if you want to be an actor, you have to live in Hollywood, but not me.

Chris Massoglia

LivePeopleMeYouWantHollywood

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

Conor Oberst

BestTryingYouFeelingSometimes

I wouldn't characterize my work, however, as directly political.

Suzanne Vega

WorkPoliticalHoweverCharacterize

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