John James Audubon Quotes

My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.

John James Audubon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1785 - January 27, 1851

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I wanted to be Red Barber, Mel Allen or Howard Cosell. I loved their personalities and all of their sounds.

John C. McGinley

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In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

Michael Ashcroft

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It always interests me how obsessed people are about age.

Amanda Burton

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I miss Dia. In the early '80s I was a guard at one of Dia's facilities in SoHo, and I'm sad that they closed their Chelsea space.

Donald Baechler

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When I was on 'Project Runway,' my website got a million hits a month, and there's nothing bad you can say about that.

Chris March

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Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Archer John Porter Martin

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It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

Seth Shostak

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I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

Tyler Perry

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When you see an early edited version, you're not sure what it is. The movie is getting on its wobbly legs.

Thomas Newman

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I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

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The first Iraq War was one of necessity because vital U.S. interests were at stake, and we reached the point where no other national-security instruments were likely to achieve the necessary goal, which was the reversal of Saddam Hussein's invasion and occupation of Kuwait.

Richard N. Haass

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My family was mostly unemployed working class.

Noam Chomsky

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