Herman Melville Quotes

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

Herman Melville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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ImpossibleTalkWriteOpenWithout

It's very clear that Louisiana is gonna be voting for Republicans for statewide elections going forward because that's just where we are as a state.

John Fleming

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When I was young, people lived from paycheck to paycheck. Today, it seems like they live from credit card payment to credit card payment.

Robert Kiyosaki

LiveTodayPeopleCreditYoung

The best moments are when, together with... you bring information, you bring data to bear in a way that helps illuminate something that you just don't really understand. Even if it doesn't completely clarify it, it just, you know, helps bring it together.

Angus Deaton

BestTogetherDataMomentsYouKnow

What scares me about drone strikes is how they are perceived around the world. The resentment created by American use of unmanned strikes... is much greater than the average American appreciates. They are hated on a visceral level, even by people who've never seen one or seen the effects of one.

Stanley A. McChrystal

PeopleMeWorldAmericanNeverSeen

The war against homosexuality in Uganda is fueled by the funds of American Christian missionary churches.

Roger Ross Williams

WarAmericanChristianAgainstFunds

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

Rowan Williams

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I wouldn't go blonde. I'd like to do a darker color - a really dark, dark red.

Lourdes Leon

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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Judy Blume

BestYouWantWriteInsideCome

No one nor anything can silence me.

Dmitri Mendeleev

SilenceMeAnythingNor

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Chevy Chase

PeopleHouseWhiteWantWatching

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

Christopher Darden

PeopleBookKnowWillPantsUp

I'm a big fan of 'Glee.' I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.

Cory Monteith

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