I remember being fascinated by ants and wasps and other bugs when I was a kid. I'd set out a Coke can and stand back 20 feet and use my telescope to watch wasps land on it. ~Paul McEuen
#quotes #paul-mceuen #childhood

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
#quotes #john-clellon-holmes #soul

A leopard cannot change its spots. ~African Proverb
#proverbs #african-proverbs #nature

Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever before. But the outcastes are usually still outcastes, because they are still the ones who tan India's animals, burn its dead, and remove its excrement. ~Rose George
#quotes #rose-george #freedom #caste #india

If you are serious about American culture and you are serious about Afro-American culture, you are in a lot of pain. You are not; you are not smiling about it. ~Wynton Marsalis
#quotes #wynton-marsalis #black #culture

I feel lucky that I had my children late. Not that I would advise it in any shape or form. But I know friends who had children when they were young, struggled with feeling trapped. I can honestly say I have never once resented the fact that I could not go out because of my kids. ~Mariella Frostrup
#quotes #mariella-frostrup #children #family

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. ~Anna Kournikova
#quotes #anna-kournikova #sports #tennis

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
#quotes #billy-sunday #prayer

I'm a very direct person and, sometimes, when I want something, I will push it until I get it. But, it's OK. It's not as bad as some people. When I have an idea in my head, I'm pretty stubborn. ~Julie Delpy
#quotes #julie-delpy #people

Only if we face up to our past can we regain our credibility. If we pretend that our trust is greater than it is, we will be like someone who tries to patch over a crack. ~Desmond Tutu
#quotes #desmond-tutu #past #trust

For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams. ~Heidi Klum
#quotes #heidi-klum #life #happiness

To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
#quotes #edward-hallowell #mind #memories #imagination

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. ~Indian Proverb
#proverbs #indian-proverbs #death

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond. ~Ken Follett
#quotes #ken-follett #james-bond #eating

We must bear the medicine on account of its usefulness. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #medicine

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. ~Mary McCarthy
#quotes #mary-mccarthy #present #past #memories

From a director's point of view, if I can create different characters which impress the audience, that is fantastic for me. ~Stephen Chow
#quotes #stephen-chow #movies

All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #reality

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change. ~Mitch Kapor
#quotes #mitch-kapor #technology #society #change

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room. ~Bill Laswell
#quotes #bill-laswell #music

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant. ~Paul Dirac
#quotes #paul-dirac #research #science

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. ~Taoist Proverb
#proverbs #taoist-proverbs #mind #world

This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
#quotes #doris-lessing #world

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes Valmore
#quotes #marceline-desbordes-valmore #books

I think that the best rock n' roll is about the spirit of being young, the feeling of being 16 and getting crazy with your friends and going out to a show and just that whole feeling. ~Sebastian Bach
#quotes #sebastian-bach #rock-n-roll #teenage #music