Ella Maillart Quotes

You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.

Ella Maillart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Joan Armatrading

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When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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I was wrong to vote for this war. Unfortunately, I'll have to live with that forever. And the lesson I learned from it is to put more faith in my own judgment.

John Edwards

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The seed of everything is in everything else.

Anaxagoras

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God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

John Newton

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The acquisition of knowledge need not be like listening to the Gregorian chant.

John J. McLaughlin

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Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Steve Carell

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I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

Stephen R. Donaldson

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It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

Stirling Moss

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I was never growing up saying, 'Dude, I want to sing in a band.'

Sonny Sandoval

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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

Travis Barker

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I won't say I wouldn't be grateful and happy and delighted and thrilled to bits to receive a nomination. But I wouldn't be suicidal if it didn't happen.

Tom Wilkinson

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