Ella Maillart Quotes

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Ella Maillart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeChildBlessedLearnArtistWay

I worked on 'USA Today' as a topic for while. I tried to do something on hand chairs, chairs that look like hands. I really tried. But some topics are not truly universal.

Jim Gaffigan

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So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on.

Jim Lee

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We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

Ann Veneman

ExperienceThinkFirstYearsEurope

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

Stephen Pagliuca

TeacherJobMeBuildCompanyBeing

I am open-eyed about what poverty does to people.

Michel Faber

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Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.

Julia Glass

WinterSportsFeetYouGroundYour

I don't watch TV or movies or play video games.

Clara Shih

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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

Brian Eno

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Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.

Bryant Gumbel

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My job is to protect the football and score points and lead this offense on drives to score points.

Brock Osweiler

FootballJobProtectLeadScore

It feels like I could go outside with a bikini thong on right now.

Sean Combs

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Fictional realms are usually terrible places to vacation, as they tend to be full of monsters and conflicts - Narnia and Middle-earth would both be good places to get killed - but I wouldn't mind visiting the worlds of Iain M. Banks's 'Culture.' You'd just have a hard time getting me to leave.

Tim Pratt

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