Mark Kurlansky Quotes

Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.

Mark Kurlansky

Recitation: by Male by Female

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TechnologyTimeFishingBuilding

Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms. The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.

John Burroughs

NatureWomenCharacterBestMind

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

Ana Navarro

OpportunitiesBrandThinkingTrySit

You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.

Amy Chua

ChildrenBestChildWorldThinkEnd

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

Stephen Colbert

RealityBiasLiberalWell-Known

The Vikings were the last people to fight with axes, which must have been horrible.

Travis Fimmel

FightPeopleHorribleLastBeen

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Russell Baker

ChildrenParentingGrowYouTryUp

For physical goods, there are costs associated with logistics and lead times, owing to inventories and poor forecasts of the market. With digital capital-intensive technology, however, production will inevitably move toward the final market, wherever it is. This re-localization constitutes a major shift in the structure of global supply networks.

Michael Spence

TechnologyWillPoorDigitalLead

I've put out a lot of stuff that just confused and alienated people: a huge chunk of songs that were verbal and musical challenges to myself, thoughts I was keeping myself busy with, nothing I had any intention of anybody grasping onto.

Lou Barlow

MyselfPeopleThoughtsChallenges

I've really never written about my relationships, or things like that. I wouldn't want to divulge things that were too private.

Jonathan Ames

WantRelationshipsNeverThingsLike

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

Dino De Laurentiis

BookYouTwoFilmGetCannot

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

Desi Arnaz

LoveSuccessEnoughYouHappenOnly

Be nice to the whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.

Desmond Tutu

HumanityYouBe NiceNiceNeed

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