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Loren Eiseley Quotes

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: September 3, 1907 - July 9, 1977

Topics

Nature Flower Without Star Could

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

People Roots World Think You Look

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

Mercer Reynolds

Friend Business Together Partnerships

It's easier to be responsible for the decisions that you've made yourself than for the ones that other people have made for you.

Yourself People Decisions You Made

If we say the purpose of life is our children, that's neither a purpose nor a meaning. But I'm sure I will be as besotted as everybody else when I have them.

Life Children Purpose Meaning Say

Uber is redefining the transportation industry now; Airbnb is doing it to the hotel industry. You can expect that to happen in every single industry.

Hotel Doing Transportation You Now

My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized.

Opinion World Personal About

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

Michelle Dockery

Family Past People In The Past Been

I always remember loving 'Even Stevens' - that show was so brilliant and funny and smart.

Funny Smart Remember Loving Always

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

Personality Dating Me Down Said She

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

Opportunity Past Thinking Country

I started doing the big Hollywood stuff, and I realised, 'Oh, there's no rehearsal at all; you just turn up on the set, and sometimes you haven't even met the other actor, or the woman who's playing your wife, and you're suddenly in bed with them.'

Wife Woman Doing You Bed Sometimes

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

Life Path Gift Think Thinking Loss

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