Herman Melville Quotes

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Herman Melville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

Topics

SleepBetterChristianSoberThan

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Jim McKay

ChangeMeOpinionsFilmWorking

When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House.

Jeff Greenfield

WarImpactGenerationYouHouse

I don't wake up every day and just write to write. I only write with purpose.

Steven Van Zandt

DayPurposeWake UpEvery DayWrite

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

Michael Patrick Hearn

SpecialWonderfulSomethingWizard

I think that President Obama is beginning to realize that a lot of his plans have backfired.

Jonathan Krohn

BeginningThinkPlansPresidentHis

I think you could offer seven or eight different possible ends for energy policy. Climate change is one of them. Dealing with criteria pollutants is one of those related to that.

Brad Carson

ChangeEnergyThinkYouPossible

I am one of the five best parallel parkers in the United States of America. Dead serious. It's to the point now where I look back when pulling into the spot only as a formality.

Willie Geist

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We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Willie Stargell

GoodPracticeHandsBallTakeBleed

When I was 10, I had a paper route. One year, I delivered my papers through a hurricane. My mother was against the idea, but my dad, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, overruled her. I was determined to deliver my papers.

Tim Finchem

MotherYearMarine CorpsDetermined

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

Nostradamus

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The buckyball, with sixty carbon atoms, is the most symmetrical form the carbon atom can take. Carbon in its nature has a genius for assembling into buckyballs. The perfect nanotube, that is, the nanotube that the carbon atom naturally wants to make and makes most often, is exactly large enough that one buckyball can roll right down the center.

Richard Smalley

NatureGeniusEnoughPerfectDown

California Democrats are out to kill the American dream by ridiculing the commitment to hard work.

Richard Grenell

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