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Samuel E. Morison Quotes

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Samuel E. Morison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: July 9, 1887 - May 15, 1976

Topics

Life Honesty Courage Respect Balance

I like files. I like editing a CSS file without necessarily having to edit an HTML file. I like fixing a problem by replacing a corrupted file with a clean one. Maybe I'm set in my ways, but I don't consider it a hardship to open a folder or replace a file.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Problem Hardship Editing Clean Open

Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.

Andrew O'Hagan

Influence Book Anxiety Dreamer Long

For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers.

Stephanie Coontz

Women Wonder Emotional Romance Still

The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.

Steve Martin

Love People You Way First Something

I've been asked whether I have a hobby, and have felt strangely offended that anyone would assume I have the time.

Mitski

Time Hobby Offended Assume Been

There's nothing wrong at all with women wanting to be women.

Liz Phair

Women Wrong Nothing Wanting

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

Jude Law

Dance Step People Genius You Body

Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Time Football Baseball Growing Up Up

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

Chris Gibson

Family Never Union Like I Came Came

With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Women Strong Possibilities Create

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.

Anton Chekhov

Dealer Writer Entertainer Cosmetic

Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place.

Phillip E. Johnson

Flowers Birds Limits Place First