Isabella Bird Quotes

Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.

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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I think there are some writers - like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he's the type of writer whose voice infects you.

John Darnielle

VoiceThinkYouDownNeedBreak

Filming is repetition and many takes.

Max von Sydow

RepetitionManyTakesFilming

I go to somewhere I haven't been and just watch people and colors. That's my inspiration.

RM

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I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is.

Michael Nesmith

GrowBetterKnowSeeDefineGet

Being tall is very good for reaching high shelves and seeing in a crowd. Sadly, it has also given me the inability to dance. There's too much of me to look neat, which is most disappointing.

Miranda Hart

GoodDanceMeSeeingLookToo Much

Poetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves.

David Whyte

LifePoetryEnoughWantKindLarge

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Christina Milian

FunnyExperienceGunYouDownEver

There has been a great list of players who cut their teeth in Europe.

Peter Uihlein

GreatTeethEuropeCutPlayersBeen

But when, in the first setting out, he takes it for granted without proof, that distinctions found in the structure of all languages, have no foundation in nature; this surely is too fastidious a way of treating the common sense of mankind.

Thomas Reid

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As I said, I believe life starts at conception.

Todd Akin

LifeBelieveSaidI BelieveStarts

Texas created more jobs in 2008 than the rest of the states - combined.

Rick Perry

RestTexasMoreThanCreatedStates

I always say: you're not going to find Hollywood. Hollywood will find you! But I'm ready for it: for Hollywood, for Bollywood, for everything!

Maria Valverde

YouFindReadySayHollywoodWill

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