Isabella Bird Quotes

The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When you're acting in a movie, you never consider the reception of it. It's impossible to predict how something will be received. Even if you think it's the greatest thing in the world, other people might not like it. Or agree with it.

Jesse Eisenberg

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I hold it to be the most monstrous proposition ever uttered within the Senate that conquering a country like Mexico, the President can constitute himself a despotic ruler without the slightest limitation on his power. If all this be true, war is indeed dangerous!

John C. Calhoun

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Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true.

Joel Salatin

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No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

John Ruskin

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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Alton Brown

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I learned that having great sensitivity is important. But being strong is just as important.

Ruby Dee

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I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

Jonathan Dimbleby

EnoughClaimMakeMakingRangeWide

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

Dolly Parton

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Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Donald Hall

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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Golf is a working man's sport in Scotland.

Brian Binnie

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I get very spiky if people treat me like an old lady.

Anne Reid

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