Herman Melville Quotes

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Herman Melville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GriefManBrainHandsSinMore

Now, if you're Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you're mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that's not a very good deal.

Joe Barton

GoodHomeLightMomAmericaYou

When a dish really hits a nerve with the American palate, it can really take off across the entire country, facilitated by food vendors' freedom to copy good ideas.

Jennifer Lee

GoodFreedomFoodIdeasAmerican

As an immigrant, I learned by watching other people.

John Cho

PeopleImmigrantWatchingLearned

I agree with 81 percent of the people of Alabama who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.

Robert J. Bentley

MarriageWomanManPeopleBelieve

First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage, and he remains so.

Stephen Greenblatt

MomentFirstPleasureStageInterest

In software design, it's all about making a guess, trying it, and then learning from the experience.

Stewart Butterfield

LearningExperienceDesignTrying

When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.

Tom Hooper

FatherMotherGrowing UpLearnLost

You see the images that the public is demanding. Why more reality-based TV? You'd think that after the first Survivor it would have gone away, but it hasn't. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories, and want to see more and more.

Montel Williams

ThinkYouWantWhyPersonalSee

I think that Jews - because they are a distinct, gifted and successful group that differentiates itself from societies in which it lives - are vulnerable wherever the rule of law is not paramount.

Louis Begley

LawThinkRule Of LawGroupWherever

Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

Johnny Kelly

LookingSheepJuryJust LookingJust

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

Diane Ackerman

HealthLosingPlantsAnimalsNeed

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Bono

HappyRichWealthCountryNothing

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