Quotes to Explore

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.

The greatest stimulator of my running career was fear.

Author : Herb Elliott

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.

I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.

Author : Gordon Parks

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages – not dirty, base themes, so we’re trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.

One can be emptied out and be filled up.

When you’re famous, you don’t get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don’t see the real people.

Author : Cass Elliot

It was dog food. Beef livers with onions in a can. You open it up and it looks like vomit.

Author : Tom Sizemore

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

Author : Susie Bright