Quotes About Dabbling

#1. About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman.

Herb Ritts

#3. I'm not easily inhibited by the fact that I don't know something about a subject. It doesn't stop me from dabbling in it.

Joshua Lederberg

#4. There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?

C.S. Lewis

#5. God is a God of purpose. He doesn't wake-up and start dabbling into things; He doesn't practice trial and error. His ways are sure, they may be low but they are always sure.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#6. Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.

Skrillex

#7. Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

Ted Danson

#8. Dabbling in astrology is like carrying a lucky rabbit's foot as an omen of good luck which costs us very little and might have some beneficial effects.

Fred Singer

#9. I am a ham. I've no business being rock 'n' roll. I've said it over and over again that I'm a classical composer, dishevelling my personality by dabbling in rock 'n' roll.

John Cale

#10. It appeared painful to regrow a set of hands, but I can hardly blame her for dabbling in street magic. Anyone can see she's addicted to being whole.

Robert Paul Weston

#11. We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or erect shopping malls and condos; planting groves of a few familiar trees that homeowners and industries prefer.

Diane Ackerman

#12. All along the backwater,
Through the rushes tall,
Ducks are a-dabbling,
Up tails all!
Ducks' tails, drakes' tails,
Yellow feet a-quiver,
Yellow bills all out of sight
Busy in the river!

Kenneth Grahame

#13. When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

Lindsey Buckingham

#14. When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

Jackie DeShannon

#15. Replace dabbling with laser-beam
focus on something important.

Abhishek Ratna

#16. A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

James Gibbons

#17. I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

Fred Durst

#18. If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#19. If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

Rick Warren

#20. I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

Priyanka Chopra

#21. The search for a way to eradicate this scourge ... is left to incidental dabbling and uncoordinated research. - The Washington Post, 1946

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#22. was not just some passing fancy or youthful dabbling. He embraced it with his typical intensity,

Walter Isaacson

#23. It was Vikram Bhatt and 'Raaz' that got me interested in the medium of cinema. Before that, I was like any other youngster dabbling with various things - modelling, films - without a definite direction or focus. Now that I'm working with all of them, life has come full circle for me.

Bipasha Basu

#24. Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world means you have started seeing life with utmost clarity. There are no more illusions about it. You see everything just the way it is.

Jaggi Vasudev

#25. Mastery does not come from dabbling. We have to be prepared to pay the price. We need to have the sustained enthusiasm that motivates us to give our best.

Eknath Easwaran

#26. My daughter's dabbling in showbiz, and she's done a few commercials. She's auditioned for some movies and shows, so I'm letting her pursue that. I'm OK with it.

Candace Cameron Bure

#27. I began dabbling in writing when I was 12, and there was never an official start to singing ... I just sang my songs because there was no one else to sing them and no one told me to shut up!

Brooke Fraser

#28. Vacations are like orgasms. There's no such thing as a bad one.

Al Daltrey

#29. I think parenting is very different now. We're totally governed by our children!

Andy Serkis

#30. I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

Paul Simon

#31. 'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

Jon Landau

#32. You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.

Billy Joel

#33. The Mayor's wrong -
He's wrong forever and ever -
It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you.
It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

Patrick Ness

#34. Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#35. God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

Charles Spurgeon

#36. They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.

Richard Dean Anderson

#37. Always. Don't argue, Ms. Fairchild, or the game stops now.

J. Kenner