Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials.

Thor Heyerdahl

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: norwegian
  • Birth: October 6, 1914 - April 18, 2002

Topics

CommunicationSeaBeginningIdeas

Everything is nicer if you feel you're in love.

Andrea Corr

LoveFeelYouEverythingNicer

Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with its technocratic and technological determinism and market idolatry, had thirty years. And now it, too, is dead.

John Ralston Saul

DepressionGlobalizationYouFlexible

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Siegfried Lenz

BalanceYouReadyNeverAskMade

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

Tom Wolfe

GoodTechnologyTimePeopleEvening

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Tom Coburn

LeadershipLiveStand UpStandSay

We like to bully deadlines. Pick on them; make fun of them; even spit on them sometimes. But what a terrible thing to do. Deadlines are actually our best friends.

Jason Fried

BestFunFriendsSometimesTerrible

When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence - he'd helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he'd died I didn't feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him.

Dolly Wells

FunnyConfidenceMeThoughtFeel

I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.

Chris Stapleton

PeopleMeWriteAskHustlerSongs

I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.

Anne Tyler

WritingPersonalShyTalkOutFound

I love opera. I love jazz, especially Mingus. This makes me sound highbrow. I'm not.

Phil Klay

LoveMeJazzSoundOperaMakes

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

Peter Forsberg

GoodMeGameGolfOverPretty

I don't claim to be an expert on love. I'm just a woman who has experienced a lot of things, and I want to share and hopefully my sharing will help make your situation better, because that's the goal.

Niecy Nash

LoveWomanBetterHelpGoalWant

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