I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills.
Ranulph Fiennes
Related
Builders don't want to hang on to standing houses -- they have to pay their bills, financing, and ta...
GREG PAQUIN They said that they were not going to pay for insurance, so I did go to an attorney because I could ...
KARYN HOPKINS Hunger has no guidelines on the Peninsula. These people are working for the same wages, fighting to ...
LORETTA JONES I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
DAMIEN CHAZELLE I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. MENCKEN I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H L MENCKEN I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk...
MICHAEL PALIN To pay bills, I guess.
TINA HARCHUBA While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe ...
RANULPH FIENNES As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally a...
RANULPH FIENNES With fear, you must prevent not cure. Fear must nor be allowed to take hold in the first place. If y...
RANULPH FIENNES Will I spend my life in a wheelchair? Tottering around my lounge, instead of running up mountain pas...
RANULPH FIENNES After my heart attack I thought, is this it?
RANULPH FIENNES There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
RANULPH FIENNES It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dan...
RANULPH FIENNES There is of course, never any point in crying over spilt milk - the key is to learn from failures an...
RANULPH FIENNES No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you...
RANULPH FIENNES We did business with an authority in Iraq. The same authority tells our agent that you have to pay a...
LEIF JOHANSSON To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.
YAKOV SMIRNOFF Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason.
SAMINA BAIG Many of the elderly will pay their utility bills and go without medication without food.
GLENN COOPER The things you need to do remain the same. You have to pay your bills on time and keep your debt lev...
GREG MCBRIDE It appears like Griffith was acting as some sort of an agent for the buyers or someone who looks for...
JOHN WELCH I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
DAVID BYRNE They don't pay their bills with bonuses. They pay their bills with salaries.
GAYLE FALLON We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we ha...
STEVIE NICKS Why must I prove that I am me when I pay bills over the phone? Did some else call to pay my bills, a...
ANONYMOUS After all, why should consumers pay for free-standing real-estate offices and branch banks when you ...
TONY PLATH I want to raise this money for pre-paid college tuition for his kids and to help her pay the bills.
MELISSA LARDOMITA Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doi...
SAMINA BAIG At the conclusion of this course the agent will not be trained to conduct auctions as an auctioneer....
GLORIA LYNN GARDNER Your home, including it's location, is an inanimate physical construct. Despite this fact, this bric...
MATT PARKER Life's Irony;If some dead folks can witness how their offsprings will be fighting over their estates...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There's no reason for McDonald's to sell real estate.
DEAN HASKELL Consumers have been given an economic boost with no astronomical heating bills to pay.
PHIL FLYNN 'Potential' does not pay the bills.
RODNEY LOVELL I went through all my electric bills, the water bills, the phone bills, elevator contracts, and I fo...
THOMAS MASSIE Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES For the same reason we don't allow kids to buy pornography, for the same reason we don't allow kids ...
ROD BLAGOJEVICH I got to buy groceries and stuff pay my bills.
DOROTHY YOUNG I think that the opportunity to be a kid another year and not have to not worry about the responsibi...
JASON WILLIAMS Mostly what I do to pay the bills is a lot of writing for corporate training films and producing tho...
LIZ STUBBS Why live for the day,
when you know the next one
is going to be exactly the same.
HUGO SVENSSON I'm doing something for myself. I'd like to get away from this, but it pays the bills. So until I fi...
DON VINCENT I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her ...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I have to stay in soaps to pay my bills to Kodak.
MICHAEL ZASLOW I can vote on bills and create an opportunity for better legislation.
ED ABLESER It's my understanding he did pay the bills.
JANE WYMAN The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. ...
MARIA LENHART I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax re...
JOHN NIVEN No one wants to pay more on water bills, ... But it's federally mandated and everyone knows it's the...
LARRY WILSON We would not allow a private insurance company to not pay claims and we must not tolerate Medicaid d...
CHANDLER WOODCOCK People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mos...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER If I am going to get in a cab to go home, and I see a sign for an open house, I will go in. I like r...
LORRAINE BRACCO Every evening, I come home tired and have just enough energy to fill out the endless tax forms, to p...
FRITZ ZWICKY I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do inst...
ESTELLA WARREN I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentali...
AL SPALDING We share the same houses, even graveyards. It has been the same for years.
EL HADJ DIOP I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW I can't afford to pay the monthly $3,000 insurance bills on my boat when I can't fish a couple month...
BRIAN HOLLAND I can't afford to pay the monthly $3,000 insurance bills on my boat when I can't fish a couple month...
BRIAN HOLLAND It's my practice to pay as I go. If I go out to the Oscars, I have an expense account for legitimate...
LLOYD GROVE I t pretty much kills me because I've got bills to pay, too.
BRANDON MOORE No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.
JEAN HARLOW I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.
ZSA ZSA GABOR It's people building houses, ... It's people financing the building of houses. It's people working i...
CHRISTOPHER THORNBERG I was a huge 'Friends' fan. I had a very small part. I played a real-estate agent in the ver...
JANE LYNCH I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.
KATHY BATES We believed it was better to pay as you go than it was to pay your bills by borrowing and laying up ...
SCOTT NEARING Would you rather be a real estate agent or a crackwhore? Me too, crack whore all the way...
JULES CARLYSLE - FAMOUS CANADIAN AUTHOR & HUMORIST She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to b...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
GARY SINISE I got a whole bunch of money, about $300. I've got to pay bills.
COURTNEY SIMS Go to the landlord and ask to see the bills and the methodology used to calculate and figure what yo...
MICHAEL SHAMES Mexico is the second most important destination of U.S. exports. What does this mean? The U.S. sells...
ENRIQUE PENA NIETO No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, ...
DUDLEY NORTH I can't go on anymore bad dates. I would rather be home alone than out with some guy who sells socks...
CYNTHIA NIXON We are using 2006 money to pay for 2005 bills. The saying goes that you can't get sick after June. P...
HUGH BAKER When you feel like your life is out of control, an organized, 'take charge' real estate agent may be...
ROBERT IRWIN I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
GARY SINISE They had the same agent, so it is possible that it was an incredible publicity stunt.
BEVERLY LEECH They said they needed the money to pay bills. It was definitely about money.
AARON AMBROSE Volkswagen sells only 2.8 percent of its products in the same segments as Porsche. An overlap first ...
WENDELIN WIEDEKING This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she neve...
AMELIA E. BARR This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she neve...
AMELIA BARR Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bil...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The price increases are at levels that are catastrophic for most people. Everybody you talk to is sa...
CAROL BIEDRZYCKI You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, fo...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the sa...
ALOE BLACC I've never had a problem with them. Of course I pay my bills.
ETONELLA CHRISTLIEB It's a timing issue for us as much as anything. We just needed a cash infusion to pay our bills imme...
DAN PACKER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Go to the nearest telephone and call your travel agent or call the airlines and try to get yourself ...
KAREN CURE Rock 'n' roll doesn't always pay the bills, and I've been interested in bars - obviously - for a lon...
GREG DULLI A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills.
MARK WAHLBERG
More Ranulph Fiennes
While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe ...
RANULPH FIENNES As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally a...
RANULPH FIENNES With fear, you must prevent not cure. Fear must nor be allowed to take hold in the first place. If y...
RANULPH FIENNES Will I spend my life in a wheelchair? Tottering around my lounge, instead of running up mountain pas...
RANULPH FIENNES After my heart attack I thought, is this it?
RANULPH FIENNES There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing
RANULPH FIENNES It is a truism to say that the dog is largely what his master makes of him: he can be savage and dan...
RANULPH FIENNES There is of course, never any point in crying over spilt milk - the key is to learn from failures an...
RANULPH FIENNES No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you...
RANULPH FIENNES When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned ...
RALPH FIENNES We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
RALPH FIENNES The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.
RALPH FIENNES I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people ...
RALPH FIENNES I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
RALPH FIENNES I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
RALPH FIENNES So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and w...
RALPH FIENNES Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do a...
RALPH FIENNES I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about som...
RALPH FIENNES As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but t...
RALPH FIENNES You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
RALPH FIENNES I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as ...
RALPH FIENNES Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession ...
RALPH FIENNES Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.
RALPH FIENNES I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
RALPH FIENNES I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic...
RALPH FIENNES There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it ve...
RALPH FIENNES There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and sud...
RALPH FIENNES God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlighten...
RALPH FIENNES Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.
RALPH FIENNES I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict...
RALPH FIENNES You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
RALPH FIENNES Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They...
RALPH FIENNES There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be fr...
RALPH FIENNES One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
RALPH FIENNES He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You ...
RALPH FIENNES Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me...
RALPH FIENNES I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.
JOSEPH FIENNES I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
RALPH FIENNES I think academics are infuriating. For every expert on Shakespeare there is another one to cancel hi...
JOSEPH FIENNES I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
RALPH FIENNES I'm interested in the spirits of people. In the theater, there's the acting part of acting -- and I'...
RALPH FIENNES Yes, it's depressing when there's a lack of clean water and sanitation, ... But here are people livi...
RALPH FIENNES The Constant Gardener
RALPH FIENNES [Is a fiction film particularly well equipped to do the kind of work we usually associate with inves...
RALPH FIENNES You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
RALPH FIENNES I don't know what my limitations are until I reach them. I look for the challenge.
JOSEPH FIENNES Shakespeare,
JOSEPH FIENNES We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift, ... The Kenyan background is like...
RALPH FIENNES Any idealistic activity outside of my work is something confined to a few field trips with UNICEF in...
RALPH FIENNES We were in real places, with real people. That is Fernando's gift.
RALPH FIENNES On these things we don't really know until it is asked of us.
RALPH FIENNES But that's why we have marketing and why I'm talking to people like you,
RALPH FIENNES Justin's journey traces not only what Tessa was investigating; he's also playing detective about the...
RALPH FIENNES Justin sees something in Tessa. She's getting at him,
RALPH FIENNES He said Quayle's the sort who'd be good at rowing or playing rugby, ... I know rugby players. They r...
RALPH FIENNES Strange Days
RALPH FIENNES Daniel had to put up with a lot from me. Here's a boy who's tied up with a man pushing his finger in...
RALPH FIENNES H. Potter & Goblet of Fire
RALPH FIENNES Harry Potter & the Goblet...
RALPH FIENNES I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.
RALPH FIENNES I don't think he's that complicated to begin with,
RALPH FIENNES What I liked about the story is that it throws up all these questions. The movie teases the audience...
RALPH FIENNES Justin was a chance to play what I don't quite succeed at. There's a bit of Justin that I'm not, but...
RALPH FIENNES Fernando has a particular shooting style, ... which you might call guerrilla or documentary. He want...
RALPH FIENNES Justin isn't going to respond angrily ... he's going to carefully say, 'What was she doing?
RALPH FIENNES [Is a fiction film particularly well equipped to do the kind of work we usually associate with inves...
RALPH FIENNES I'm interested in the spirits of people,
RALPH FIENNES I don't think Justin changes,
RALPH FIENNES Justin investigates his wife's death and what she was investigating and there's -- people are after ...
RALPH FIENNES The patience, the tenacity of the gardener for me, it's the spirit of Tessa.
RALPH FIENNES It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
RALPH FIENNES From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I w...
JOSEPH FIENNES [How does that affect his relationships?] It puts a stress on relationships, not just with partners ...
JOSEPH FIENNES When I was offered the part in ShakespeareIn Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights role!
JOSEPH FIENNES I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about...
JOSEPH FIENNES I love new writing, new blood, modern works by unknown writers.
JOSEPH FIENNES I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff.
JOSEPH FIENNES Give me a sword fight any day.
JOSEPH FIENNES I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing...
JOSEPH FIENNES I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic t...
JOSEPH FIENNES You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
RALPH FIENNES There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.
RALPH FIENNES In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a ...
RALPH FIENNES [How does that affect his relationships?] It puts a stress on relationships, not just with partners ...
JOSEPH FIENNES When I was offered the part in Shakespeare
In Love a voice in my head said 'not another tights r...
JOSEPH FIENNES There are two equal parts to this movie,
RALPH FIENNES It shows the kind of man he is. To allow any emotion would be unseemly for him,
RALPH FIENNES But experience has shown us time and time again, country after country, that it will be there.
RALPH FIENNES