Christopher Columbus Quotes

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

Christopher Columbus

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: italian
  • Birth: October 31, 1451 - May 20, 1506

Topics

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Live TV, which is happening as you see it, is very exciting to do. Any mistake is seen by millions, and if there is a technical breakdown, one has to ad lib or improvise like mad.

Jimmy Savile

LiveMistakeYouMadSeeSeen

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics.

Joan Blades

FuturePresentBetterCommon Sense

I started traveling out of curiosity, but I have come to believe in travel's political importance, that encouraging a nation's citizenry to travel may be as important as encouraging school attendance, environmental conservation, or national thrift. You cannot understand the otherness of places you have not encountered.

Andrew Solomon

TravelSchoolEnvironmentalBelieve

Chopin or Billy Eckstine or Miles Davis - that stuff helps me, more when I've already written and I need a little energy to keep editing.

John Leguizamo

MeEnergyEditingMoreNeedLittle

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.

Maureen Forrester

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My experience has been that actors always want to be directed.

John Wells

ExperienceWantAlwaysBeenDirected

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

Alvin Lee

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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

Stephen Spender

ChaosRichYouUnderstandMaster

My hope is that the 21st century will be the first century where there will be no violation of human rights, and to that end, Japan would like to do our outmost.

Shinzo Abe

HopeEndWillHumanFirstRights

I am not a superstitious person.

Tom Morello

I AmPersonAmSuperstitious

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Martin Parr

FatherDownObservationGenesPassed

I think the culture of the red carpet is too much like a modern-day coliseum. If you're being photographed all the time, and you don't like having a bad photograph taken, and if you're super, super thin, chances are you're never going to look fat in a picture.

Julia Stiles

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