"Alexander von Humboldtâ€™s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Personâ€™s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present."

-- Daniel Walker Howe

#Art Quotes #Views Quotes #World Quotes

“A boat is the hardest think I know of to put into perspective. It is so much like a human figure, there is something alive about it.”
“An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; and American thinks a hundred years is a long time”
“Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King.”

Source : "Crime novelist Duane Swierczynski on shedding the Spanx for noir in the new BLACK HOOD #1". Interview with Donna Dickens, uproxx.com. January 28, 2015.
“I never stopped being attracted to women. Bisexuality is misunderstood; the adage is that you're either straight or gay or lying, but that's not my experience. To call me anything other than bisexual would be inaccurate.”
“I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.”

Source : Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”
“A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.”
“Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love...”
“One of the main pitfalls of any theoretically 'niche' show is that you spend too much time on the 'niche' and not enough time on the 'show.”

Source : "We're All Gleeks - 10 Questions for Glee Co-Creator Brad Falchuk". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 7, 2009.

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