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Theo Jansen Quotes

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

Theo Jansen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: dutch
Birth: March 14, 1948

Topics

Step Know Animals Way More Steps

If you look across the valley, you can see exactly what I mean: about four beautiful houses, and you think something is happening in each of them. It's like a mural.

Jilly Cooper

Beautiful Think You Look Mean See

By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.

Jesmyn Ward

Time Myself Day Men Writing Book

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

Jennifer Gilmore

History Experience Imagination Me

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

Andrew Buchan

Challenge I Am Me Look Go Actor

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

Robert M. Hutchins

Education Think Teach Minds Possible

Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.

Matt Smith

Silly Now First Right Always Tie

I buy my produce at the local farmer's market, which is actually cheaper than shopping at the grocery store.

Anna Getty

Shopping Farmer Buy Market Cheaper

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

Steven Berkoff

Great House Run Director Opera

You have a huge demographic shift that's happening in America. Globally.

Troy Carter

America You Shift Happening Huge

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Roger Bannister

Family Great People Small Village

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

Lori Greiner

Learning Business Trust People Doing

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Important Mortality Brief Very