Havens Quotes - Page 32

• Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Nature, Fancy, Facts

  Charles Dudley Warner (1872). “Back-log studies and My summer in a garden”, p.113

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• If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.

  Helen Fielding

  Book, Panic Attacks, Comedy

  "Bridget Jones and women in the 90s". www.cnn.com. August 6, 1999.

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• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

  Ian Fleming

  Eggs, People, Doe

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• Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

  George Mikes

  Soul, Foreigners

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• I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

  Mark Burnett

  Adventure, Race, Challenges

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• New Yorkers are mostly interested in New York - in case you haven't noticed.

  Jim Harrison

  New York, Literature, Cases

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. June 7, 2004.

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• Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

  Lynne Truss

  Sorry, Laughing, Comedian

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• You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

  Bob Newhart

  Clean, Resorts, Shock

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• I choose depending on the way I feel; randomly, in other words. When I haven't done anything for a long time, I always start small, on paper.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Long, Technique

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Some people put us down. But I still haven't heard of any Americans trying to swim across the border into Mexico!

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, America

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• The way the world works now, the way the rules of engagement operate, you can't claim to make sense out of the exterior without booking voyages into the interior. Think about it: How can you understand 'it' if you haven't made any effort to understand 'you'? Because what you're really doing is establishing a living, electrical, vital, energetic connection between it and you. You're creating both of them, simultaneously. A lot like quantum physics.

  Seth Godin

  Thinking, Self, Creating

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• I haven't got time for the pain.

  Carly Simon

  Pain, Sadness

  Song: Haven't Got Time For The Pain, Album: Hotcakes, 1974

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• If you do things by the job, you are perpetually driven: the hours are scourges. If you work by the hour, you gently sail on the stream of Time, which is always bearing you on to the haven of Pay, whether you make any effort, or not.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Jobs, Effort, Pay

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Safe Haven, Reality, Risk

  Inaugural address as President of Yale University, April 11, 1964.

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• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Waiting, Waste, Wasting Time

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• A Cambridge lady, hearing of the latest Suicide, said to her friend, turning off TV for tea, "Well, my dear, doesn't it seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?"

  Richard Eberhart

  Suicide, Littles, Invited

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• Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

  Philip Johnson

  Wall, Talking, Rooms

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• Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

  Philip Johnson

  Believe, Rivers, Steps

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

  Geena Davis

  Gone, Meetings

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• I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Thinking, Print Media

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• For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.

  Grete Waitz

  Couple, Tired, Sick

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• I'm doing great heart-wise. I get a complete stress test once a year, and those have gone well. I have stents in two arteries, and they are holding up. My other arteries haven't shown any additional clogging.

  Alberto Salazar

  Wise, Stress, Heart

  Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 5, 2012.

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• 25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

  Mark Messier

  Winning, Night, Years

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• I haven't watched anything I've been in since I've done it. I have never put in a movie at home that I've been in. Why? I don't know. I would feel like Norma Desmond. And I have a kid, so time is at a premium.

  Helen Hunt

  Home, Kids, Done

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• I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

  Tim Roth

  Thinking, Years, Actors

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