John James Audubon Quotes

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

John James Audubon

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• I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Know
  • Week
  • Days

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Different
  • Bad
  • Political

• I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Imagination
  • Force
  • Roles

• The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • You
  • Media
  • Lazy

• Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Different
  • Day

• When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Wife
  • Rule
  • Fine

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• No one can make me work harder than I do, so I'm generally not interested in who I am competing with.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Work
  • Interested
  • Harder

• Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

  

  Oren Peli
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Not Knowing

• Polite conversation is rarely either.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Communication
  • Either

• My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Father
  • Education
  • College

• Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.

  

  Nancy Werlin
  • Age
  • Past
  • Teenager

• It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Truth
  • Strong
  • Light

• It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Woman
  • Drink
  • Her

• A lot of things can't be modeled very well.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Things
  • Very
  • Well

• It's not like my old self – I'm not in character anymore, I'm me. I'm not hiding behind that anymore.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Character
  • Like
  • Old

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • America
  • Study

• Realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Youth

• I listen to every type of music there is, and I also have a little girl, so I listen to ultra-fun Disney stars' music as well.

  

  Jamie Lynn Spears
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Girl

• Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

  

  John James Audubon
  • Music
  • Drawing
  • Hunting