John James Audubon Quotes

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

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• When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • God
  • City

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Life
  • Wish

• There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Parent
  • Coffee

• Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Way
  • Interesting

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'

  

  Dan Webster
  • Work
  • Water
  • Transportation

• I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Speak
  • Succeed

• I think hip-hop is no more misogynistic than America is as a society. I just think hip-hop is a lot more brash, a lot more bold, a lot more loquacious. There are a lot more words that go into a hip-hop song than go into a regular song.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • America
  • Song
  • Society

• It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

  

  Zhou Xun
  • Easy
  • Chinese
  • Films

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • You
  • Funny
  • Feel

• I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Religious

• I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Think
  • Find

• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Political
  • Government

• Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Best
  • Characters
  • Sides

• I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Children
  • War
  • Mother

• As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Goodbye

• Whenever my teenage daughter comes down the stairs dressed like a tramp for her date, I think to myself: 'Damn, why won't her mother wear something like that ?'

  

  David Henry
  • Mother
  • Daughter
  • Something

• There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Evil
  • Judgement
  • Government Policy

• Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Mother
  • Father