Isabella Bird Quotes

Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

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• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Important
  • Truth
  • Religion

• The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • May
  • Dangerous
  • November

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.

  

  Maimonides
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Know

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Loved

• What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Me
  • Mom

• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • True
  • Lies
  • Tell

• At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • End

• As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Good
  • Father
  • Perfect

• From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

  

  Victor Francis Hess
  • Work
  • Problems
  • Physics

• There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Military

• I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Perfect
  • Child
  • Find

• If you go to the protests now, you will see something you never saw before: hundreds of women. They shout and sing, they even sleep there in tents. This is not just a political revolution, it's a social revolution

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Women
  • Political
  • Sleep

• My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Color

• I've always thought a novelist only has one character, and that is himself or herself. In my case, me.

  

  John Gregory Dunne
  • Character

• Well, I'm British. I'm proud to be British and I love this country. I'm going nowhere.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Country
  • Proud

• If you know me, I don't live in this dismal world. I mean, I like to have fun. My friends are comedians.

  

  Linda Blair
  • World
  • Live
  • Friends

• Americans specially love superlatives. The phrases 'biggest in the world,' 'finest in the world,' are on all lips.

  

  Isabella Bird
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