Joseph Conrad Quotes

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Joseph Conrad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SeaModernHighwayMakeShipsMuch

I'm not the kind of guy who will pass someone without saying hello. If that's flaky, then I guess I'm flaky.

Joe Cowley

SayingSomeoneKindWillHelloGuy

I want to be an independent woman who falls in love, finds a great partner for her lifetime, has kids and kind of does it all. I'd like to have it all.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

LoveGreatWomanPartnerWantKind

My plan is, I'm in the process of creating a production company called Tall Girls productions. I want to be doing both film and television. I'll never leave television. I just love working in it too much.

Melissa Rosenberg

LoveProcessDoingPlanTelevision

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Trent Reznor

SituationProductUpJumpingSell

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.

Robert Downey, Jr.

ConfidencePowerMoving ForwardThink

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Robert A. Heinlein

RightBeingSoonUnacceptableToo

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

Julia Stiles

WorkGratefulI AmHappyPeopleMe

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

Jason Isbell

PainEmotionalDealtPhysical Pain

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

DeRay Mckesson

SilenceThinkEndDisruptionProtest

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Drake Bell

BeachFirstTwoBeatlesRecords

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

Donnie Wahlberg

RealityTableKindTryGroundBring

I know I have a caption that I'm going to use when somebody tells me something I've never heard before. It's very rarely a thought, a philosophy, when somebody says, 'Oh, I don't like cheese' or 'Oh, I think the government should be overthrown,' because so many people share these thoughts. But what people don't share is stories.

Brandon Stanton

GovernmentPeopleMeThoughtsThink

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