Edward Forbes Quotes

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Edward Forbes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 12, 1815 - November 18, 1854

Topics

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From its very inception, Lenny Letter set out to create a supportive, positive, inclusive space on the Internet that does not shy away from complexity and nuance.

Jenny Zhang

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To stay around any place you love, you have to have a job. In college at Georgetown in the fifties, I got my first theater job checking coats at the National, which was Washington's main theater.

John Guare

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Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

Jehane Noujaim

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To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Andreja Pejic

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Almond milk is not a milk; it's not a beverage, really.

Maye Musk

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The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

Ruth Ozeki

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I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.'

Jason Fuchs

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I never cook. My favorite place to eat is Smith & Wollensky in Chicago.

Jonathan Toews

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Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it.

Craig Brown

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I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

Mose Allison

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I was allowed to meet my family every two weeks for a half hour.

Mordechai Vanunu

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I haven't gotten hundreds of jobs that I've auditioned for.

Leslie Odom, Jr.

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