John James Audubon Quotes

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

John James Audubon

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• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Movie
  • Black

• The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Up
  • God
  • Eye

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Never
  • Working
  • Year

• There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Money
  • Done
  • True

• The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

  

  Orrin Hatch
  • Children
  • Community
  • Sacrifice

• The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Different
  • Faith

• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Special
  • Fact
  • Elements

• You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Age
  • Think
  • Want

• The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Imagination
  • Everyday

• My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.

  

  Zendaya
  • Used
  • Room
  • Full

• Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Crazy

• History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteries nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrained desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you.

  

  Aberjhani
  • History
  • Free

• It was in 1915 the old world ended.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • World

• Whatever doubts or vexations one has in Japan, it is only necessary to ask one's self: 'Well, who are the best people to live with?'

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • People
  • Live

• Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Party

• There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

  

  Aneurin Bevan

• In principio, dunque, era la noia, volgarmente chiamata caos. Iddio, annoiandosi della noia, creò la terra, il cielo, l'acqua, gli animali, le piante, Adamo ed Èva; i quali ultimi, annoiandosi a loro volta in paradiso, mangiarono il frutto proibito. Iddio si annoiò di loro e li cacciò dall'Eden.

  

  Alberto Moravia

• I realized all of the possibilities that could exist for me with my camera: all of the images that I could capture, all of the lives I could enter, all of the people I could meet and how much I could learn from them.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • People

• If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

  

  Myron Scholes
  • Innovation
  • Ends
  • Scholes

• Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • People
  • Action
  • Alone

• Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Government
  • Rights
  • Accept

• The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

  

  John James Audubon