Fields Quotes

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Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. — Sloan Wilson
My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals. — Robert Winston
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long… — Thomas Wolfe
The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture,… — George Edward Woodberry
There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. — Robert Wyatt
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me. — Andrew Wyeth
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss… — William Butler Yeats
I've always seen the Olympics as a place where you could act out your differences on the athletic field with a sense of sportsmanship and… — Andrew Young
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds… — Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably… — Rob Zombie
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of… — Geoff Mulgan
I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into. — John Oliver
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world… — Rumi
We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us. — Pat Conroy
The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields. — Truman Capote
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's… — J D Salinger
Nothing rekindles my spirits, gives comfort to my heart and mind, more than a visit to Mississippi... and to be regaled as I often have… — Craig Claiborne
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the… — H P Lovecraft

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