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John James Audubon Quotes

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

John James Audubon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Friend Art Me Rich Powerful Wishes

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character Man Nothing More Than He

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Louise Mensch

Time Best First Kid Fiction Prime

'The Walking Dead' was my favorite show before I even auditioned for it. That's every actor's dream, to be on a show that they're a fan of. It's just dark, and as a comedian, I'm drawn to dark things.

Josh McDermitt

Walking Dream Dark Actor Dead Just

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.

Jason Isaacs

Life God Hate Know Want Interviews

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

Jasper Johns

Work Freedom Possibilities Paths Own

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

Chris Jordan

Live Art Politics Ideas Performance

We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.

Brendon Burchard

Good Out Seek May Should Tune

Sharks don't particularly have a great interest in divers. It seemed that in a normal dive, I would jump in the water, and one or two gray reef sharks would swim in and kind of check me out - and then they would keep their distance. So they weren't particularly threatening or anything to be afraid of.

Brian Skerry

Great Water Me Sharks Distance Jump

Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how to look. Then the flash kind of makes me go boss-eyed sometimes.

Anne-Marie

Time Me Look Know Sometimes Kind

After I retired, it was quite a long time before I went back to my department. I thought I was well out of it.

Peter Higgs

Time Thought Long Back Long Time

You have to give them something where they walk away and say, 'I want more of that.' To create something like that, you have to take them on a journey. So the live show is very important to us; we've been working on that a lot.

Tyler Joseph

Live Journey Walk You Create Want

I think the written word is probably the best medium of communication because you have time to reflect, you have time to choose your words, to get your sentences exactly right. Whereas when you're being interviewed, say, you have to talk on the fly, you have to improvise, you can change sentences around, and they're not exactly right.

Richard Dawkins

Change Communication Time Best Words