Galen Rowell Quotes

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

Galen Rowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

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NatureEnvironmentalDaysCommitted

I think I have a God complex, and I like moving mountains and writing stories that affect entire worlds, and it's a bit hard to do that in a contemporary setting because you have reality intruding. Whereas, when you set your own reality, you can make up your own rules and do whatever you like.

Jennifer Fallon

GodMountainsMovingWritingThink

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

Robert J. Sawyer

SoupStoryShortWholeIdeaNovel

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

Jeb Bush

FailurePressureMediocrityUnions

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

Rita Ora

YouArtistTellHonestJustSongs

When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.

Ritchie Blackmore

DayWaitingMeEndYouFeeling

Music for me is a bit more spiritual. There are moments when I'm sitting at my piano, and I don't realize that I've been playing for two hours - it feels like divine power. I know it's so cheesy.

Mary Lambert

MusicPowerSpiritualMeMoments

I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Greene's phrase.

Michael Korda

JourneyKnowledgeHistoryMyself

Guys just don't care. We don't take the time to plan behind each other's back. We just say, If you don't like me, screw you'. If a guy doesn't like you, you know because you have a black eye.

Jonathan Bennett

TimeMeEyeBlackCarePlan

The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language.

Dominic Chianese

InfluenceLanguageFeelComedyRadio

The house I've bought in London, the holidays, everything has been bought from making people laugh, and if you'd said to me when I was 14 that's how I was going to make my living, I would have smiled from ear to ear.

Dominic Holland

PeopleMeHolidaysLaughYouHouse

Tabloid newspapers are very rich and hold huge funds to fight claims.

Diana Rigg

FightRichHoldNewspapersVery

The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product.

Clayton M. Christensen

GoodTechnologyQualityMistakeYou

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