Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

Edward Burnett Tylor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 2, 1832 - January 2, 1917

Topics

CountryThreeSettleMexicoHigh

I would love for there to be a 'Voodoo Dreams' movie, especially after seeing the glorious 'Beasts of the Southern Wild.' I so admired how the filmmakers captured Louisiana and the magical atmosphere. I cried.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

LoveDreamsSeeingWildMagical

I do have a strong sense of an order in the universe.

Joan Didion

StrongUniverseOrderSense

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

Andrew Weil

GreatCulturePastIsolationThink

Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

Matthew Desmond

BusinessLiabilityProvokeJustKids

If one begins all deeds well, it is likely that they will end well too.

Sophocles

EndWillDeedsWellBeginsToo

I am beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago, I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and wordless part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks after my first husband, with whom I had started a beekeeping business, and I had divorced.

Sue Hubbell

BusinessMyselfWordsI AmHusband

Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Robert Duvall

GoodTodaySpecialEverythingRoom

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Deepak Chopra

LoveLeadershipBeautyTruthValues

I think it's sick that we even post pictures of people in their post-baby bodies or talk about it. It upsets me so much because not only does it make a woman feel bad if she hasn't lost all their baby weight, it's not realistic.

Christina Applegate

WomanPeopleMeBabySickThink

Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.

Chris Moneymaker

ThinkWayNeverYearsUpPoker

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.

Corazon Aquino

LifeGoodI AmMeBadWay

I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

Claire Tomalin

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