Isabella Bird Quotes

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FlowerFlowersGraceIndividuality

The definition of marriage cannot be disputed. It's right there in black and white and it's been the same since the start of Wikipedia.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

MarriageBlack And WhiteStartBlack

I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.

John Caudwell

LifeEffortPeopleFeelOutBreak

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.

Andra Day

MusicTimeSpiritualPeopleSong

Being told that I looked like I belonged everywhere and to everyone helped me feel my fledgling pride in my own multiracialism.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

MePrideFeelMy OwnEveryoneOwn

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Matthew Simpson

FaithManConnectionsThen

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.

Tom Clancy

GolfLearnDoingYouPlayWay

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

Luke Evans

SometimesActorWhoWereSensibility

One culture I find fascinating to juxtapose against American culture is the culture of Germany. They've gone through a long process through their art, poetry, public discourse, their politics, of owning the fact of their complicity in what happened in World War II. It's still a topic of everyday conversation in Germany.

Chris Jordan

ArtCulturePoliticsWarPoetry

Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation.

David Slade

LoveBestMovingDirectionYouFind

I'm going to continue to be the same attacking style that I've always been. I'm not going to change it because of how other teams are treating me.

Christian Pulisic

ChangeStyleMeSameAlwaysGoing

Every man of courage is a man of his word.

Pierre Corneille

CourageManWordEvery ManEvery

People always assume that, if you're an actor who's been on anything from which you're recognisable, that you're making all this money, and it's just not true.

Sheryl Lee

MoneyPeopleYouTrueActorAlways

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