Treasure Quotes - Page 23

• I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Running, Believe, Night

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )”, p.105, e-artnow

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• In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• With good planning, Africa can have cities, farms, factories, export processing zones. But if the political will is there, the huge areas - the Serengeti, the Okavango, the Kalahari, Kruger - these wonderful, huge places for wildlife could still be set aside and protected, and be treasures for humanity for many generations to come.

  Patrick Bergin

  Political Will, Cities, Humanity

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great apes) - this is a treasure for all humanity, and they are not for sale. They are not for trade. They need to be valued and preserved by humanity. We all need a global commitment to that.

  Patrick Bergin

  Commitment, Rhinos, Elephants

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I treasure my mornings. I get up early and ignore everything work-related for the first few hours. It's just me and my coffee addiction.

  Rachael Yamagata

  Morning, Coffee, Up Early

  "Award-winning Musician Rachael Yamagata: Gratitude for Mornings, Music, and Mom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It's been scattered and I had to follow leads. Some stuff was with different family members in various drawers. I find out about more stuff and more stuff [over time]. I won't call it a treasure hunt, but it's like an old Western movie we're you're onto one thing and it turns into another.

  Aaron Brookner

  Different Families, Stuff, Members

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I have no policy for my collection. For example, there's a bunch of meteorite [on the windowsill in my studio]. I touch it and I feel the energy from the universe. I have a 1/1,000th of a fragment of stone-age tools and pottery and debris. I can learn many things from my collection. Actually, the 1,000 Buddha, I wanted to buy it, but it's a National Treasure, so I couldn't. If you cannot buy it, just photograph it!

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Age, Energy, Example

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We don't have that much time left to do it. I'm 80. I wanted to be Walter Huston to his John Huston. I wanted him to direct me, not in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but something. We'll see. We can't predict anything.

  Donald Sutherland

  Time Left, Wanted, Direct

  "Donald Sutherland on 'Forsaken', Working with His Son for the First Time, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If you go around a time when you're hungry, around mealtime, then you have a desperate search to find something to eat and you have this interplay between approach and avoidance. You go in a place, you smell, if it doesn't smell so good you go to the next place, you look at all the people, they're happily eating, and then you choose that place. So having to reconnoiter, having to go on a kind of treasure hunt for food is one of my favorite things.

  Robert Sietsema

  Smell, People, Looks

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.

  DJ Spooky

  Wind, Water, Noise

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe visualize it, but leave it alone. A

  DJ Spooky

  Talking, People, Realizing

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I mean, we've always had gold bugs, but now we sort of realize that Treasure Bills might be in the same category. And we have derivatives like credit default swaps which are in this category, and we have derivatives like volatilities that are actually an asset class that we can invest in which are now - would out perform if we have another financial crisis.

  Robert F. Engle

  Mean, Class, Gold

  Source: bigthink.com

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• This is life. It is everywhere, and it is here for the taking. I am alive and I know this, now, in a more profound way than when I am doing anything else. These sights are ephemeral, fleeting treasures that have been offered to me and to me alone. No other person in the history of the world, anywhere in all of time and space, has been granted this gift to be here in my place. And I am privileged, through the camera, to take this moment away with me. That is why I photograph.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Space, Sight

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• Kids eh? Little treasures, I love 'em... couldn't eat a whole one though.

  Murdoc Niccals

  Kids, Ems, Littles

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• The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.

  John Alfred Langford

  Book, Jewels, House

  John Alfred Langford (1880). “The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books”

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• The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

  Theognis of Megara

  Children, Parenting, Greatest Treasure

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• Your ship was spotted off the coast this morning, slipping silently through the fog... coming around the cape she appeared in a shaft of sunlight... and what a sight to see! Glimmering as much as the ocean herself. Massive and beautiful beyond belief! Laden with treasures, happy times, friends, love, and laughter. Quick, you must PREPARE for her docking... you MUST make space in your life for her gifts... otherwise, just as quickly, she'll quietly slip back out to sea.

  Mike Dooley

  Beautiful, Morning, Laughter

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• We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

  Rahm Emanuel

  War, Men, Blood

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of God. It's the tribal story of a particular people, and the best thing about that story is that the story keeps growing and evolving.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, Stories, Growing

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

  Alan Green

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  "An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green". Interview with Luke Turner, thequietus.com. June 6, 2016.

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• I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.

  Alice Cooper

  Song, Character, Mean

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue.

  Steven Raichlen

  Europe, Ideas, Barbecue

  Source: rssfeeds.usatoday.com

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• We can also cling to the treasures of our faith and get rid of the things that are cluttering that. It is a time we are seeing some trending away from the things that were cluttering our faith.

  Shane Claiborne

  Seeing

  "Interview with Shane Claiborne: Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• Looking back, I see that I was born with the subtle sense that material treasures alone, no matter how grand, would never be enough to satisfy the longing in my heart to see the light, to know the truth.

  Rod Stryker

  Heart, Light, Matter

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• When we move forward into our future, knowing and using the treasures within, then only good lies before us. We can know and affirm that everything that happens to us is for our highest good and greatest joy, truly believing that we can't go wrong.

  Louise Hay

  Lying, Moving Forward, Believe

  Louise L. Hay (2009). “Life!: Reflections on Your Journey”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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