Erik Larson Quotes

In 1900, 45 steamship lines served Galveston. Twenty-six foreign governments had consulates there. The storm damaged its reputation as a safe place for substantial investment by railroads then seeking to dominate various trans-continental routes.

Erik Larson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 3, 1954

Topics

StormReputationPlaceInvestment

Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Andy Coulson

WindSailsNothingOutTakeTen

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

Robert Lansing

ManMindMeLooking ForwardForward

I'm kind of a little allergic to that whole, 'Let's go to L.A. and write a bunch of hits.'

St. Lucia

GoKindWriteLittleWholeAllergic

I'm going to fight until my body says otherwise.

Robbie Lawler

FightBodyGoingUntilSays

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy.

Diana Ross

LifeMy LifeNeverBeenFactRags

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Doris Day

ImaginationBeginsVulgarityExplicit

Nobody in my family ever thought that I'd a be a model.

Cindy Crawford

FamilyThoughtNobodyModelEver

There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

LifeSoulPoetrySufferingListening

I have been a Republican since 1966.

Arlen Specter

RepublicanBeenSince

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

Antisthenes

MistakesAttentionPay AttentionPay

It's a normal thing for people to do, going on Facebook and seeing pictures of their exes with their new significant others.

Allison Williams

PeopleSeeingPicturesNewOthers

When you model, you don't really have control over your image. It can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing. It can be a good thing in the sense that, actually, you have to get reintroduced to yourself. You don't always get that opportunity in your normal life. You can kind of hide from yourself.

Philomena Kwao

LifeGoodOpportunityYourselfYou

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