Isabella Bird Quotes

The Shat-el-Arab is a noble river or estuary. From both its Persian and Turkish shores, however, mountains have disappeared, and dark forests of date palms intersected by canals fringe its margin heavily, and extend to some distance inland.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MountainsRiverDarkDistanceNoble

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

Jimmy Smits

GoodI AmHappyMeCraftPretty

The first point to remember is that attempts to clone mice have actually been very unsuccessful for at least a decade. Sheep have been successful. So one asks, 'Where do humans lie?' Most people think they are somewhere between the two, but at least there's a reasonable chance they might be clone-able.

John Gurdon

LiePeopleChanceThinkSheepFirst

The more roles there are, the more actors there are.

John Cho

MoreRoles

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Tony Visconti

TodayScienceScience FictionForty

When you're in New York, people don't say, 'We're happy you came to New York.' In D.C., people thank you for coming here and bringing art here.

JR

ArtNew YorkHappyPeopleThank You

You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

Judith Krantz

WorkHard WorkHeartFeetInternet

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Joseph Campbell

ReligionFactsYouTroubleTrueWay

I have come up the hard way.

Johnny Olson

WayHardUpHard WayCome

Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

Chris Christie

MeAmericaYouBackThreeNeed

In point of fact, I'm not sure there are too many comedies with laugh tracks anymore. Most of what you hear is live studio audience laughing as a show is filmed. If this prompts you to wonder who those actual human beings are who are laughing at some of this stuff, that is a mystification I share.

Christopher Lloyd

LiveLaughYouWonderHumanPoint

Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.

Christian Lous Lange

TimeStepForwardRealityPolitical

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

Boris Johnson

SadDayYouWonderSometimesBeing

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