Isabella Bird Quotes

Water is a beverage which I never enjoyed in purity and perfection before I visited America. It is provided in abundance in the cars, the hotels, the waiting-rooms, the steamers, and even the stores, in crystal jugs or stone filters, and it is always iced. This may be either the result or the cause of the temperance of the people.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: explorer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 15, 1831 - October 7, 1904

Topics

WaterPerfectionPeopleResultStone

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

Andrea Bocelli

LoveMusicI AmThinkLuckyAlways

I would have liked to have had more to do with Kristin Bauer van Straten. She's the nicest human being that I think I've ever met.

Robert Kazinsky

ThinkMoreHumanSheHuman Being

I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.

Michael Cerveris

NeverAlwaysBigGotFan

There's nothing like the freedom of being in a roomful of strangers and trying to make them laugh... You either sink or swim. It's like verbal boxing.

Tony Rock

FreedomLaughTryingYouStrangers

I kind of like to be one of the guardians of the game.

Jon Gruden

GameKindLikeGuardians

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.

Douglas Rushkoff

BeautifulFreeSearchInternetWay

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

Booker T. Washington

WorkHard WorkResultWorthNothing

Since he took power over half a century ago, Fidel Castro proved to be a brutal dictator who must always be remembered by his gross abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cubans, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship upon his own people.

Bob Menendez

PowerPeopleCensorshipHumanOver

My father fought in the war, and then he was posted all 'round the world with his job. So I didn't know him very well when I was young.

Anne Reid

FatherJobWarWorldKnowYoung

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Suzanne Fields

EnoughChicagoUpMakePolandPoles

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Peter O'Toole

LifeTimeDesertMy LifeMilitary

I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant.

Ring Lardner

RestaurantRightAlwaysHungryKnown

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