Joshua Slocum Quotes

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.

Joshua Slocum

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: February 20, 1844 - November 14, 1909

Topics

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The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns.

Andrew Rosenthal

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It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.

Andrew Whitworth

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I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone.

Max Greenfield

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I have been writing poetry ever since I was in high school. My poetry mainly concerned the theme of love. And that, of course, is an endless subject.

Robert Indiana

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The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Steven Pinker

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Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating it with doomsday.

Steven Pinker

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I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Mathew Baynton

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Philiosophers like Hume and Descartes and Hobbes saw things similarly. They thought that mental images and ideas were actually the same thing. There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

Michael Novak

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Education has always produced an incredible amount of data; that's always been obvious to me. But technology had to catch up.

Jose Ferreira

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I was definitely the kid who was the chicken, who didn't want to say the cuss words.

Jon Watts

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Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

Brian Greene

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