Mark Kurlansky Quotes

Fishing in sustainable ways means fewer fish, higher quality, better price at the market. That is a formula that is good for the environment and the fisherman but bad for the consumer.

Mark Kurlansky

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GoodQualityFishingBetterFish

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

John Cusack

LifeFearCourageGreatArtPain

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!

Angela Lansbury

AgeAwardRidiculousMeanContract

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.

Anita Diament

FamilyHeartReligionDiningRoom

Feelings are at the basis of all ideas. First you have feelings, and then, through those sensations, it develops into ideas.

Jeff Koons

IdeasYouFeelingsFirstThrough

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.

Stephen Bennett

MoneyYouGetOnly

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

Sophocles

ManBadTidingsLoves

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.

Russell Banks

ReadingDesireMonkeyCleverWrite

For me, character comes from a specific condition or situation. I cannot really define a character outside that situation.

Asghar Farhadi

CharacterMeSituationOutside

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

William Shatner

LookingPerfectMovie

On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia.

William Kunstler

LifeMomentAdventurePeopleStand

I have never had a plan when it comes to my career: America came to me with an opportunity.

Priyanka Chopra

OpportunityMeAmericaPlanCareer

It's a wonderful honor to win an Ignobel Prize.

Sheldon Lee Glashow

WinHonorWonderfulPrize

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