Isabella Bird Quotes

On the whole, I find that it is best to adopt as far as possible the travelling equipments of the country in which one travels. The muleteers and servants understand them better, and if anything goes wrong or wears out, it can be repaired or replaced.

Isabella Bird

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BestBetterFindWrongPossibleOut

I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.

Jim Diamond

PeopleWeekWantBandNextBuy

But hey, controversy - well, it hasn't hurt me in 50 years.

Joe Arpaio

MeHurtYearsControversyWellHey

I'm half French.

John Carreyrou

HalfFrench

The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

UnderstandExpensiveGotFilmEven

In NASCAR, you don't have to be as physically strong as in some other forms of racing. You've just got to be able to endure the heat and endurance of it.

Jeff Gordon

StrongRacingYouEnduranceHeat

I don't envisage I will be captain again, but for two England managers, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, I was their first choice and I'm proud of that.

John Terry

ProudChoiceWillCaptainFirstTwo

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Rudyard Kipling

Too MuchSheOldWestGoingAsia

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Mike Pence

ResearchCongressHumanDecideHere

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

CarSilenceYourselfSpaceWriting

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

Jason Calacanis

CarTechnologyBestPlaceHappen

I didn't want to write travelogues.

Deborah Eisenberg

WantWrite

I've mellowed quite quickly.

Colin Baker

QuiteQuickly

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