Isabella Bird Quotes

The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the buildings described by the Hebrew traveller Benjamin of Tudela as existing in the twelfth century were long since carried away.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FierceLongBuildingsAwayCentury

If you think something's stupid, it probably is.

John Lasseter

StupidThinkYouSomething

I like film books at the bottom of the barrel and art books at the top. 'The Ghastly One,' by Jimmy McDonough, is a hilarious biography of one of the most hideous directors who ever picked up a movie camera - Andy Milligan.

John Waters

ArtCameraTopUpBottomFilm

When you combine a Texas woman in a competition setting with her child, she gets very serious.

Alyssa Edwards

WomanCompetitionChildTexasYou

I was a West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon girl for years, and it was so central that I felt like we'd moved to Portland when we came to Malibu, but now I can't imagine living anywhere else. We have the best of all worlds, hilltop living, 15 minutes from town, with the beach at the bottom of the road.

Sonya Walger

GirlBestBeachRoadNowLiving

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

Michael Redhill

BusinessGreatDepressionEmpathy

Nabokov's adventures in language and style and naked braininess are really unparalleled.

Lorrie Moore

StyleLanguageNakedAdventures

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

Jayne Meadows

I AmQuietShyOppositesEvenVery

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

Josiah Royce

TimeThoughtSelfPresentProblem

Show off your own style and uniqueness to stand out. That's the advice I'd give to people getting started online now.

Conor Maynard

StylePeopleStandAdviceUniqueness

I grew up watching sci-fi and Justice League and all those kinds of things.

Ciara Renee

JusticeWatchingUpThingsKinds

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

LoveAmericaSayWillJustLike

I grew up on a farm, and I had good, natural South Tyrolean food.

Armin Zoggeler

GoodFoodFarmUpNaturalSouth

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