Ella Maillart Quotes

From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Ella Maillart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: February 20, 1903 - March 27, 1997

Topics

LifeLiveBeginningWindTideOwn

My view is that we should go back to the moon, build up the infrastructure to make flights there commonplace - be comfortable with it - then use that infrastructure to expand and go to Mars.

Jim Lovell

MoonViewBackGoBuildComfortable

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

ManRidiculousIntelligentEverything

When I left for college, my mom really latched on to the dog; She started buying him little outfits and calling him our brother, but that's as far as it got.

Jennine Capó Crucet

DogBrotherCollegeMomSheHim

Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.

John King

SadFeelYouDebateSometimesOut

On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.

Robert Peel

OpportunityDayEveningWednesday

That short-sleeping that we're now suffering is a consequence of our lifestyle. It's not a consequence of evolutionary habituation.

Matthew Walker

SufferingNowLifestyleOur

I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.

Matt Damon

SayMoviesSeeUsedWouldLike

I'd like to do a contemporary London thing, working with like-minded people, possibly through improvisation.

Steven Mackintosh

PeopleLondonThroughWorkingLike

I prefer building rather than fundraising.

Travis Kalanick

MyselfUberFailuresBeforeHad

From the time I won the Kansas City Match Play championship at age 14, I never wanted to be anything but a golfer.

Tom Watson

AgeTimeCityPlayNeverAnything

That's what I've figured out over the years - the way I write makes people feel uncomfortable.

Lou Barlow

PeopleFeelUncomfortableWayWrite

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Louise Brown

BookThinkDoingYouWantWill

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