Nathaniel Philbrick Quotes

By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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• If I have anything, it's tenacity.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Anything
  • Tenacity

• We’ll rack our brains and either solve your problem or come up come up with new and better ones.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Up

• So kiss me Kate, Thou lovely loon, E'er we start on our honeymoon. Oh, kiss me, Kate, Darling devil divine, For now thou shall ever be mine.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Devil
  • Kiss

• I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Comedy

• Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Art
  • American
  • Aesthetic

• I feel like once I say out loud, to the public, what I'm working on, it's never going to be an actual book. So until it's close to done, I keep pretty quiet about my next stuff!

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Done
  • Book
  • Pretty

• I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.

  

  Jacquelyn Jablonski
  • Trying
  • Fashion

• Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

  

  Jamais Cascio

• As a kid, I certainly never thought I would get to spend my life doing something fun.

  

  Weird Al Yankovic
  • Life
  • Fun

• I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.

  

  Charles Schwab

• My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

  

  Black Elk
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Friend

• This entire opus is respectfully dedicated to all those who have loved unconditionally only to have their hearts unanaesthetically ripped out: Base not your joy on the deeds of others, for what is given can be taken away. No hope = No fear.

  

  Peter Steele
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Joy

• I told him to open his eyes, that I didn’t want to kill him with his eyes shut, for God’s sake.

  

  Joanna Russ
  • God
  • Eyes

• If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Great
  • Respect

• I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Heaven
  • Honor
  • Hero

• Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Feeling
  • Beginning
  • Feelings

• The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Community
  • Church
  • Building

• My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Life
  • Smoking
  • Enjoyments

• One-third of the planet's population, over two billion people, has never heard the gospel. And of that number, over 50,000 die daily, separated from God forever.

  

  David Sills
  • People
  • God
  • Forever

• You're always looking to make it a bit fresh. I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested, and we're always talking to the directors about that. It's a big challenge to find people that can do it.

  

  Adrian Hodges
  • Challenge
  • Interested
  • Fresh

• By 1760, the Nantucketers had virtually exterminated the local whale population.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Population
  • Local
  • Whale