Ella Maillart Quotes

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

Ella Maillart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterJourneyMomentsPerfect

I try and journal every day, and that's where a lot of my lyric comes from.

Jessie Baylin

DayEvery DayJournalTryWhereLot

I've not stopped going on public transport. I love going on it.

Jessica Raine

LoveTransportGoingPublicI Love

In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

John David Washington

FailureTrustFootballRejection

Science fiction has never been about the future; it's always been about the present day whether it's Victorian England that Wells was writing about or the post-9/11 era that I'm writing about.

Robert J. Sawyer

FutureScienceDayWritingPresent

Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

Matt Groening

MeStreetLineOutSeemsFan

It's not a pleasure torturing actors, although some of them enjoy it.

Ang Lee

EnjoyPleasureSomeThemAlthough

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.

Michael D. Barnes

PeopleSafetyTreatTestWaySystem

Part of the strength that Charlie and I have as a team is we've been able to keep our priorities straight through our entire partnership. We've been able to maintain a life outside of skating, and though we've given up a lot of things and we've been training really hard our entire lives, we've been able to maintain great social lives.

Meryl Davis

LifeStrengthGreatTrainingTeam

There's no future for New Order.

Stephen Morris

FutureNewOrderNo FutureNew Order

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

MeGenerationMusiciansGoMore

To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill's powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had long admired. Kennedy was hardly unmindful of how important a great inaugural address could be.

Robert Dallek

GreatWordsWarChallengesWorld

When 'Nevermind' came out, my roommate had the CD. At first, I actually thought, 'This is too polished and commercial.' It was a little off-putting. But then I was like, 'This is the best music ever.' It felt so close to what I wanted to do.

Rivers Cuomo

MusicBestThoughtFirstOutLittle

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