Terrain Quotes

87 Terrain quotes by 79 unique authors

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the… — Judy Davis
Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies,… — Joel Edgerton
Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I… — Emily Giffin
The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and… — Michael Hardt
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who… — Criss Jami
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for… — Peggy Noonan
An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished. — Rebecca Solnit
Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave… — Fernando Pessoa
Films today show only a dream world and have lost touch with the way people really are... In this country, people die at 21. They… — John Cassavetes
Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being… — Katie Couric
In our heart we know that life loves life. Yet we feast on some of the other life-forms with which we share our planet; we… — Diane Ackerman
Depression is a lot like that: slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible. Suicide will have seemed to its perpetrator the last and best of bad… — Kay Redfield Jamison
The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad,… — Marisha Pessl
Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of… — Douglas Adams
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone nor blade of… — Cormac McCarthy
Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind… — Christopher McDougall
By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as… — Cormac McCarthy
Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this… — David Abram
Sheep are always looking for a new shepherd when the terrain gets rocky. — Karen Marie Moning
There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected. — Adrienne Rich
The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in navigating the difficult… — Hakeem Jeffries

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