Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 13, 1931

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I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.

Megan Hilty

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For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

John Pomfret

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I have a fairly realistic idea about what my gifts and limitations are.

Amanda Peet

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When I was younger, I would eat everything.

Summer Sanders

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Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Simon Kuznets

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I can't not write funny. It's literally the only way I know how to do it.

MaryJanice Davidson

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I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

Christien Meindertsma

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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor any one in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.

Anthony Carmona

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One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.

Suzy Menkes

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I compose with bells a lot. Bells and breath. Both things you react to without thinking about it. Bells traditionally give us orders: come to the desk, the truck is backing up, the ice cream is here, it's time to go to church. They're sounds our brains are already associated with.

Sxip Shirey

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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Peter Drucker

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