William Bligh Quotes

In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.

William Bligh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 9, 1754 - December 7, 1817

Topics

GoodHopeGreatWeatherFreeYear

Running is my church.

Joan Van Ark

ChurchRunning

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Andre Breton

LiveLivingExistenceSolutions

Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

Michael Hayden

ViewPowerfulSecretsTransparency

For me, the performance was always playing different people. And so when I got older, was no longer the romantic leading movie star, it became more and more interesting for me, the characters I played, you know?

Michael Caine

RomanticPeopleMePerformanceYou

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs

CreativityNew ThingsCreativePeople

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Judy Garland

LaughterTearsDramaKnowTryOwn

In addition to higher pay, federal government employment is far more secure than private-sector employment.

Jason Chaffetz

GovernmentMorePayEmploymentFar

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

Dolly Parton

GoodFeel GoodFeelDoingEnough

I want to bring drawing back to the basics, make it about the pleasure that it can afford and remove the notion that it's some kind of precious or difficult activity. It's another way of telling a story.

Chris Riddell

StoryDrawingBackWantKindWay

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.

Arca

HopeFocusYouDarkKnowKind

A backheel is good if it works, not if it disrespects the opponents.

Arjen Robben

GoodOpponentsWorks

Actors have a social responsibility.

Ali Fazal

ResponsibilitySocial Responsibility

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