Circumnavigator In 80 Quotes & Sayings

You spend most of your time as an actor unemployed, so you're not going to hear me complaining that I haven't had a day off in three weeks. — Sendhil Ramamurthy

No matter what federal program one selects - Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the drug war, the income tax and the IRS, education, foreign interventions and wars - they are all a giant mess. — Jacob G. Hornberger

It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity. — Charles Spurgeon

I learned what education was expected to do for an individual. Before going there I had a good deal of the then rather prevalent idea among our people that to secure an education meant to have a good, easy time, free from all necessity for manual labor. At Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labor, but learned to love labor, not alone for its financial value, but for labor's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings. At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy. — Booker T. Washington

Struggles and challenges are ordinary, it's how you deal with them that can make you extraordinary. — Shan Fazelbhoy

Headmistress. Whatever. She's still a self-righteous old bit - — Richelle Mead

and so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat. — Antoine Wilson

I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church. — Andy Stanley

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles. — Kristoffer Rygg

Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind. — Jim Lee

If you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate. — Cory Doctorow

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout. — Henry David Thoreau

I think writing is an extension of a childhood habit - the habit of entertaining oneself by taking interesting bits of reality and building upon them. — Zilpha Keatley Snyder

The key to developing the courage to change is to first accept that change is inevitable. — Wallace Nesbitt

Making the films is never easy, but actually that aspect of trying to make a better film or to keep the standard high is something that comes organically. — David Heyman