John James Audubon Quotes

Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic.

John James Audubon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMathematicsMeGeographyHard

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

Jessica Alba

CulturePeopleTalkGhostsSeeJust

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

Jessica Stockholder

PaintingSkinNailsPlumbingPaint

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

John Lee Hooker

PeopleYouChoiceDownBluesRadio

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

Matthew Bourne

GoodHopeGood NightPeopleNight

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat; thoughts are no different than anything else.

Jeff Bridges

ChangeWaterThoughtsWindBoatYou

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.

Rory Bremner

YouDareNothingGarbageOutNone

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

Michelle Wolf

WritingWantJokesForeverAble

If your body needs certain food, you have to give it to it. And as an athlete, if I'm doing 100 miles a week and working out, if I eat bad food one day, it's not bad for me because I burn it off.

Mo Farah

FoodDayMeDoingYouBody

I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.

Julia Barr

GirlFoodMeHusbandKnowAnything

I'm not looking for a battle with anybody, neither the council nor our labor partners.

Antonio Villaraigosa

LookingBattleLaborOurAnybody

Modeling was so fleeting it doesn't count in my life scheme.

Ali MacGraw

LifeMy LifeModelingFleetingCount

To get to know someone so different from myself as an octopus, and to know that the individual recognised me and even enjoyed my company, was an enormous privilege. The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle, and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.

Sy Montgomery

MyselfKissMeStrongSomeoneSkin

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