Joseph Conrad Quotes

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Joseph Conrad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

Topics

NatureButterflyManWillNeverMud

I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.

Jill Scott

MeFeelLearnDoingEmotionsPlay

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

John Crowe Ransom

StyleWaitingCriticsSamePoets

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Stephen Hawking

LoveBeautyScienceJoyPeopleNow

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

Stephen Hawking

SciencePhysicsUpModernKept

Uber exists because of mobile telephones.

Travis Kalanick

BecauseMobileUberExists

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

Mary Kay Ash

InspirationalYourselfPeopleMind

In the 1980s, in the communist Eastern Germany, if you owned a typewriter, you had to register it with the government. You had to register a sample sheet of text out of the typewriter. And this was done so the government could track where text was coming from.

Mikko Hypponen

GovernmentYouDoneOutCommunist

It's definitely an influence, I mean how can you not say you are influenced to play rock.

Mike Lowry

InfluenceYouPlaySayRockMean

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Joseph Conrad

WorkStrengthGreatQualityMen

Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Diane von Furstenberg

BeautifulWaterPinkSandIsland

And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.

Cornelia Funke

PlanWriteDragonRiderSequel

The cool thing about directing is, whatever cool thing works in the scene, it's still making the episode be a great story, and everyone's working toward that goal, so it doesn't much matter where it's coming from.

Clark Gregg

GreatCoolStoryGoalMatterComing

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