Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
Quotes to Explore
-
I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
-
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
-
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
-
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
-
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
-
I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
-
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
-
If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.
-
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
-
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
-
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
-
I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
-
I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
-
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
-
If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?
-
My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.
-
To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
-
I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
-
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
-
In L.A., my house is surrounded by churches, and there are no cars, so it's really nice to just walk around before I go home to check my emails from Spain, which have been coming in all night.
-
I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
-
The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point.
-
I wasn't afraid to be laughed at or be loud.
-
Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
