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Douglas Bader Quotes

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

Douglas Bader

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: soldier
Nationality: british
Birth: February 10, 1910 - September 5, 1982

Topics

Sea Road Holiday Bank Days Solid

The planet's spinning a thousand miles an hour around this gigantic nuclear explosion while these people roll these machines with rubber tires over this hard surface that we've laid down over the planet so that we can easily move ourselves back and forth.

Joe Rogan

People Back Down Hard Over Spinning

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Joe E. Lewis

Money Like Nerves Actually

The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady's-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell. On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.

John Burroughs

Plants Birds Landscape You Look

I grew up around a mix of a lot of people, so I got a lot of different perspectives. As a kid, I appreciated that.

Jermaine Fowler

People Appreciated Kid Up Different

I used to do community theater with Conor Oberst.

Andrew Rannells

Community Used Theater

For me, baseball is more comparable to chess than it is to hockey.

Jeff Garlin

Baseball Me Hockey Chess More Than

I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s.

Stella Young

Community Woman Political Early Late

My son works as a production assistant in television.

Robert David Hall

Son Television Production Assistant

It's not my responsibility to make everything I say idiot-proof.

Ronda Rousey

Responsibility Say Everything Make

Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Roxane Gay

Ignorance Silence Face Better Silent

I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.

Mike Myers

You Write First Sixty Everything

When I started at Pratt, Spike Lee had his 40 Acres and A Mule studios down the street. You'd see Rosie Perez walking around going to Mike's Coffee Shop. So it was this black bohemian.

Mickalene Thomas

Coffee Black Walking You Down See