Packs Quotes - Page 17

• Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack.

  William Camden

  Wisdom, All Time

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• I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.

  Alfonsina Storni

  Tired, Mountain, Growing

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• I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

  Summer, Mother, Beach

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• It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

  William Butler Yeats

  Plato, Eye, Imagination

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.418, Hayes Barton Press

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• For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who lived in a caravan in Goldstream Park with a pack of dogs and a monkey and shunned the human race except to attend her own art openings? Only a genius could both paint and write my/her home.

  Marjorie Celona

  Dog, Art, Home

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• In Mexico City, Tehran, Kolkata, Bangkok, Shanghai, and hundreds of other cities, the air is no longer safe to breathe. In some cities, the air is so polluted that breathing is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day.

  Lester R. Brown

  Air, Breathing, Cities

  Lester R. Brown (2008). “Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• So sweep away the sand an' dry the ocean, an' just pack the moon an' stars up in a cardboard box. And stop the clouds from chimin', block the sun from shinin',an' paint the sky a deeper shade of blue, 'cause my world's over without you.

  Kenny Rogers

  Sweet, Stars, Block

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• If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Death, Lying, Years

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• If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!

  John Eliot

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.71, Diversion Books

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• I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Hangover, Men, Thinking

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• Any moron with a pack of matches can start a fire. Raining down sulfur takes a huge level of endurance. Mass genocide is the most exhausting activity one can engage in, next to soccer.

  Matt Damon

  Soccer, Rain, Fire

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• There's always [on women's magazines] that great photo of the actress or model lifting up her shirt just to show you the bone structure and the six-pack of her own. It's almost like when horses are auctioned and they show you their teeth. 'Am I good enough?'

  Janeane Garofalo

  Horse, Teeth, Magazines

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• The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Independent, Government, Language

  "English as a Global Language" David Crystal, Cambridge University Press, (p. 124), 2003.

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• I think time management as a label encourages people to view each 24-hour period as a slot in which they should pack as much as possible.

  Tim Ferriss

  Thinking, Views, People

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• We value-packs, you all small fries.

  Puff Daddy

  Fries, Values

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• You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.

  Phil Collins

  Lying, Infidelity, Wipe

  Song: In The Air Tonight, Album: Face Value

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• I took a fresh pack of Luckies, a mint called Sen-Sen, my old man's Trojans.

  Billy Joel

  Family, Men, Mint

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• There's a lot of people who don't want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like - they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it's a lot of fun, man. It's like, this is how I started, and it's still fun for me.

  Dave Chappelle

  Fun, Men, People

  "Dave Chappelle Sits Down with Anderson Cooper". Interview with Anderson Cooper, www.thehollywoodgossip.com. July 10, 2006.

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• I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.

  Ree Drummond

  Running, Country, Hate

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• I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Character, Age, Hollywood

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• People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?

  Randy Johnson

  Eye, Successful, Long

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• I'm home about two days a month, and on those I have to pack.

  Mary Ann Mobley

  Home, Two, Months

  "Mary Ann Mobley: going public about a private disease". Saturday Evening Post Interview with Cory SerVaas, January 1, 1994.

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• I think the movie business and film crews are a little bit like the circus, in that we travel around like a pack and we're a big family for a finite period of time. We roll into someplace, cause a bunch of damage, and then roll out.

  Francis Lawrence

  Thinking, Big Families, Littles

  "Reese Witherspoon and Director Francis Lawrence Interview Water for Elephants". Press Conference, collider.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Pack an outfit to change into on the plane.

  Nicole Richie

  Planes

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• I enjoyed living in Chicago and doing plays for little or no money. I never actually thought that I would leave Chicago, originally. I wasn't one of those people that had a plan to pack up the van and drive out to Hollywood. I didn't want to.

  Michael Shannon

  Play, People, Chicago

  "Michael Shannon Talks BOARDWALK EMPIRE, MAN OF STEEL, and Future Projects" by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2011.

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