Emma Restall Orr Quotes

#1. I want to be best golfer in the world. But I feel like golf is not everything in my life, but I want to keep doing it, keep working hard, do the best I can on the tour and give back to the tour.

Yani Tseng

#2. There are no facts, only stories.

Emma Restall Orr

#3. Let's begin at the beginning. It's our only choice, it turns out.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#4. These days I script whole fights, in my head, and the reconciliations afterwards, too.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.

Minna Antrim

#6. The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Robert Morgan

#7. It's hard to make a living doing documentaries. Frankly, if it takes you five years to do a film, and that's the only film you're doing, you're in trouble.

Alex Gibney

#8. We are living from inside out not from outside in.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.

Emma Restall Orr

#10. The real point of watching television is to forget that you have a brain.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

#11. Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an integrated reality, rooted in nature.

Emma Restall Orr

#12. The way we see the world is not actually the world in itself. What we see is our idea of it. The truth is, we have no notion of what the world is other than through the veils of our perception.

Emma Restall Orr

#13. Poverty isn't solved with donations.

Carlos Slim

#14. The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

Lewis Hyde

#15. All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.

Emma Restall Orr

#16. But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

Jonah Goldberg

#17. Bird, don't sound so crushed. The fact that I had never had sex before can only have been significant for me, if it had any meaning at all-it had nothing to do with you.

Kenzaburo Oe

#18. In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.

Alexander Smith

#19. You don't live forever, at least in this life.

Frederick Lenz

#20. Each one of us must make his own true way, and when we do, that way will express the universal way.

Shunryu Suzuki

#21. If you submit to the ocean, you drown. If you try to control the ocean, then you're deluded. You learn how to live with the ocean. You learn how to float, to swim, to be a part of it, to be with it. That is the nature of the Pagan's relationship with nature.

Emma Restall Orr