Isabella Bird Quotes

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SuccessFailureExperiencePersonal

We can and must turn this around. If you're going to kill someone just pull the trigger.

Jim Allchin

SomeoneYouTurnGoingMustJust

I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

Jill Soloway

RideBikePeopleSayingBicycleBad

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

Jessica Savitch

TiredNewsReasonLeftLocalChairs

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.

John Goodman

CreativeBreadNiceNeedSomething

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Andrew Lincoln

LifeSomeonePretendingWorkingElse

I thrive with high-performance challenges in front of me.

John M. Grunsfeld

MeChallengesThriveFront

I wanted to put the national interest before my personal interests.

Michael Gove

PersonalInterestNational Interest

I felt the need to unlearn my formal education.

Michael Cimino

EducationNeedFormalFeltUnlearn

I feel I have so many projects and I haven't completed them yet.

Roy Horn

FeelI FeelManyProjectsThem

Television is a different challenge; it is not a stage. But each opportunity that I have to learn I learn, and I take the opportunity to work.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

WorkOpportunityChallengeLearn

I got out of school in 2000, and I always wanted to be on 'This American Life,' since I first started telling stories. And that, I mean, that show is a little bit of a fortress. It's really hard to get stuff on that show.

Mike Birbiglia

LifeSchoolAmericanMeanFirstOut

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

Liz Williams

NewStructureEthicalBecause

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