Isabella Bird Quotes
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.Isabella Bird
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The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
Mackenzie Rosman -
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Maimonides -
You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
Cameron Diaz -
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
Taylor Swift
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra -
As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
Jackie Chan -
There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
Rachel Nichols -
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara Tuchman -
I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
Barbara Park -
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts.
Elvis Presley
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
Audre Lorde -
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
Matt Taibbi -
Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.
Christina Romer -
I write larger than life. It's what I do.
James Patterson -
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
Louise L. Hay -
We have to ask ourselves why younger women don't feel the need to be right up front with their politics. Is that going to set us back or is that itself a sign of progress? I don't know the answer.
Ann Powers
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Play is the exultation of the possible.
Martin Buber -
When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.
Donald Hall -
One of the big mistakes of the Moroccan elite and the elite in the Muslim world was to be afraid of the conservatives. They are fighting for their ideas. Why shouldn't we fight for our ideas?
Leila Slimani -
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
P. G. Wodehouse -
I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider's perspective.
Joel Kinnaman -
Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.
Isabella Bird