Isabella Bird Quotes

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government your variable costs go up: unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation, health care benefits, welfare, you name it.

Meg Whitman

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Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself.

Max Keiser

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There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Anna Chancellor

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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

John Stuart Mill

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My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries.

Dolores O'Riordan

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It takes me a very, very long time to write a story, to write a piece of fiction, whatever you call the fiction that I write. I just go about it blindly, feeling my way towards what it has to be.

Deborah Eisenberg

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If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

Chuck Pagano

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Young people can create beautiful things.

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I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Seth MacFarlane

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I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.

Scott Adkins

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