Isabella Bird Quotes

Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RiverHandsomeLongBuildingsWall

'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.

John Burnside

BestMeWorldFriendsWayChanged

It's really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my parents have shown me that's not true.

Maya Hawke

ParentsMeMindsetEasyYouTrue

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

Robert B. Parker

DayYouWriteRightStayWould

There's nothing as real as money.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

MoneyNothingReal

I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area.

Jon Cryer

ThinkPotentialFeelI Feel Like

I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.

Colin Salmon

OpportunityTimeBestDeathYear

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

William J. Clinton

DemocracyWorldAmericaEnvyWrong

We try to stick pretty close to what our goals are and what we believe and what we enjoy doing in life - just simple things.

Priscilla Chan

LifeGoalsSimpleBelieveDoingTry

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.

Paul Wellstone

LifeLiveWordsSpeakYouNever

Rough Riders took 13 weeks to shoot, plus a week of training. The same guy trained us trained the cast in Platoon. Except, instead of radios, we used bugles to signal.

Tom Berenger

TrainingWeekSameShootGuyUsed

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

Richard Grenell

PoliticalGayPartyWhyEqual

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.

Marina Abramovic

KnowAnythingBecauseBeenAfterlife

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