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Francis Parkman Quotes

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Francis Parkman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1823 - November 8, 1893

Topics

Art Men Society Back Find Resources

Energy consumption matters both to our environment and our economy.

John Baldacci

Energy Environment Matters Economy

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

John Drinkwater

Poetry True Personal Emotion Real

I had examples from a very young age of gay actors or personalities coming out in late '90s and early 2000s who faced a lot of backlash and didn't have a lot of support and risked ruining their careers.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Age Support Early Late Gay Young

I wanted to see if you could put a prototype radio station on the Internet so you wouldn't have to invest $50 million or $100 million or $150 million to buy a transmitter and a frequency.

Tom Leykis

Internet You See Radio Buy Million

In reality, both religion and science are expressions of man's uncertainty. Perhaps the paradox is that certainty, whether it be in science or religion, is dangerous.

Robert Winston

Science Man Religion Reality Paradox

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Jose Saramago

Sea Space Rivers Like Genre Much

Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.

Don McLean

Work Family Art New York Goodbye

When I sing a song, I want someone to recognize 'Now that's Dianne singing that song.'

Dianne Reeves

Singing Song Someone Now Want Sing

I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that.

Ciaran Hinds

Me Growing Up Stupid Person Growing

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Tall Decide Away Being Going Just

I think we use a lot of words and labels when trying to describe people: ones with autism, ones without autism. In general, I think that labeling people is a major issue, and people don't understand the power of language.

Nikki Reed

Power Words People Think Language

I'm not superstitious. But my mother doesn't allow me to cut my nails after dark. Earlier, I used to wear a scapular from Potta around my neck, given to me by a family member. But during my shoots, it's not possible, so I tie it on my right wrist for protection.

Krystle D'Souza

Family Mother Me Dark Possible Tie