Karen Blixen Quotes

I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open to them.

Karen Blixen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: danish
  • Birth: April 17, 1885 - September 7, 1962

Topics

WomenPeopleWorldThinkBecome

Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.

John Burroughs

YourselfPeopleWoodsYouFindWill

The whole world has changed after September 11th.

Jerry Bruckheimer

WorldSeptemberWholeChangedAfter

Sometimes I have little movies that I've made that I wish would be seen by a larger audience. I have a horror movie called 'Sensored' which I'm very creepy and disgusting in, and then I have a family drama called 'The Legends of Nethiah' which has a science-fiction B-story.

Robert Picardo

FamilyWishDramaSometimesMovies

By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.

John J. McLaughlin

PressureYouI CanCreatingMore

Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.

Jeb Bush

PeopleYouSpiralAgainstAgree

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

John Quincy Adams

PowerPeopleOnlyMaximPreserve

I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.'

Amanda Peet

SomeoneGamesLike

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

Robert Darnton

CommunicationHistoryDisciplineBook

It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

Robert Winston

ProgressImportantLegislationPace

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

Jean de la Bruyere

ManFriendsPerfectHimMissGive

I don't think I'd ever really survive the outdoors.

Jared Gilman

SurviveOutdoorsThinkEverReally

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Diane Wakoski

WomenPowerPoetryCarePolitical

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