Isabella Bird Quotes

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WaterElephantNothingMudAlways

Each year, we learn that customer service diminishes. You may argue it's because the IRS budget has been cut, but I'm going to argue that it's because the IRS chooses to spend its funds in other areas like the Affordable Care Act, bonuses, and conferences.

Ander Crenshaw

ServiceCareLearnCustomerYear

This is me. Take it or leave it.

Melanie Chisholm

MeLeaveTake

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

Maxine Waters

BusinessHistoryComfortableSlave

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

John Major

TruthPeopleMeEyeTellDid

The old system, the War on Drugs, was a train wreck.

John Hickenlooper

WarTrainOldSystemWar On Drugs

Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word 'Dickensian' could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications.

Matthew Pearl

VarietyWriterWordCoverSomeVast

I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.

Jeffrey Tambor

New YorkPuzzlePlayNewBaconUp

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

Steven Strait

LoveWorldStoryShipYouThree

I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

Donald Bren

BusinessGreatSatisfactionGetBoth

I learned how to break the rules without asking.

Chris March

RulesWithoutBreakAskingHow

As an artist, we have a big influence, and we should always think if we are doing more harm than good to our viewers. We should serve as a model to them.

Coco Martin

GoodInfluenceThinkDoingArtist

One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'The Iceman Cometh' in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.

Pete Hamill

AmazingMeWritingWorldSeeingKid

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Isabella Bird