Catherine Meeks Quotes & Sayings

At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads. — William Cronon

One of the magical things about Nashville is just how many incredibly talented people are here and the way they support each other. — Callie Khouri

Then he comes to the brink of a precipitous fall; that is, he comes to the point where he himself will have to be taken as standing-reserve. Meanwhile man, precisely as the one so threatened, exalts himself to the posture of lord of the earth. In this way the impression comes to prevail that everything man encounters exists only insofar as it is his construct. This illusion gives rise in turn to one final delusion: It seems as though man everywhere and always encounters only himself ... In truth, however, precisely nowhere does man today any longer encounter himself, i.e. his essence. Man stands so decisively in attendance on the challenging-forth of Enframing that he does not apprehend Enframing as a claim, that he fails to see himself as the one spoken to, and hence also fails in every way to hear in what respect he ek-sists, from out of his essence, in the realm of an exhortation or address, and thus can never encounter only himself. — Martin Heidegger

I'm a fun-loving guy. I enjoy my life. I have a big kid inside me. — Kim Dotcom

Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. — Plutarch

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff. — Mickey Rourke

The key to handling pressure situations like these is to keep yourself steady, follow your instincts and think clearly. — Sachin Tendulkar