John James Audubon Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
-
Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
-
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
-
If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
-
I tolerate lactose like I tolerate people.
-
Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
-
I think we live in a culture that relentlessly pursues comfort. Ease is related to disease. We shouldn't always be fleeing hardship. Hardship also brings people together. We should welcome it.
-
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
-
I have reservations about everything I do.
-
'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
-
I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
-
I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
-
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
-
For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
-
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
-
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
-
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
-
If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington.
-
I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
-
The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
-
I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
-
The mercantile business did not suit me.
