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Robert Fortune Quotes

The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon.

Robert Fortune

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: September 16, 1812 - April 13, 1880

Topics

Feet Two High System Half Foot

You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Time Risks Fearless Not Perfect You

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Jerry Reed

Music Angry Listening You Powerful

There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.

Jeff Raikes

Good Community Great Good Things You

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Jean-Luc Godard

Beginning Story End Movies Middle

When I broke my leg on the dirt bike, fear got the best of me that day. I hesitated. I didn't hit it as fast as I could have, and I came up short. It was the first time in my life I couldn't get back up.

Jeff Hardy

Life Fear Time Best Day Bike

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

Amos Lee

Hope Soul People Me Feel I Can

When you're not part of a club, you have to find another way of surviving.

Mika

You Find Way Surviving Club Part

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

Michael Tilson Thomas

Music Path Diversity American Been

Growing up, I'd watch 'Rambo' or 'Commando,' and so many action heroes were these huge guys with six-pack abs. It almost became a novelty.

Lucas Till

Growing Up Action Growing Heroes Up

The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.

Jay Carney

Together Job Government House Create

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

Jonathan Demme

Money Silence Partner More Anything

What I miss about the theater is the live experience.

Donna Lynne Champlin

Live Experience Miss Theater About