Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Quotes

If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ThinkYouCivilizationLivingYour

People are starting to recognize me, and it can be hard because I'm a really nice person, and people will ask me uncomfortable questions like they know me, and I'm just like, 'Umm... can I walk away now?'

Jessie Pavelka

WalkPeopleMeQuestionsPersonNow

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

John C. Maxwell

PeopleOrganizationEndChristmas

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Maurice Denis

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I want people to say that I'm something new, something different. Something they've never seen before.

Trae Young

PeopleNewSayWantNeverSomething

I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.

Roger Stone

WifeBlueNeverJeansBlue Jeans

I'm the worst night owl, because I'm a self-loathing night owl who thinks, 'No, I should be getting up early.' It feels unproductive. I must get over that.

Ronny Chieng

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The more challenges you face in life, the more of life you experience - this lived experience gives one the 'influence' to impact others' lives.

Lubna Olayan

LifeExperienceChallengesFaceYou

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Lucille Clifton

LifePoetryLanguageMatterJust

I've been obsessed with doomsday for a long time - the idea that different cultures respond to it differently, and religions will change people's outlook on it.

Lorene Scafaria

ChangeTimePeopleLongLong Time

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

Juan Cole

ChangeCharacterPowerSocietyRight

The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.

Chuck Palahniuk

MenMeStoryLookYoungNowhere

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Arthur Ashe

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