Joseph Conrad Quotes

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Joseph Conrad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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It's rare for the studios to find a filmmaker who wants to make a family film. To find someone that has an idea, embraces it, has kids and wants to make something exciting - well, they don't see that too often.

Robert Rodriguez

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Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

John Hoeven

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On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

Angela Merkel

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This synchronous action then will be the Subject, which is the representative harmony.

Robert Delaunay

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The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Robert Englund

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When one person does something that works, everyone else wants to do it. So it didn't surprise me at all to see people come with different versions of 'American Idol' and a lot of them are exactly the same but with different twists.

Ruben Studdard

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Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.

Marvin Ammori

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To a very great extent, it's the fast-food industry that really industrialized our agriculture - that drove the system to one variety of chicken grown very quickly in confinement, to the feedlot system for beef, to giant monocultures to grow potatoes. All of those thing flow from the desire of fast-food companies for a perfectly consistent product.

Michael Pollan

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Who learns most from a good book is the author.

Jose Bergamin

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If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.

Diplo

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I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasn't.

Donald Dunn

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