"Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!"

-- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

#Sea Quotes #Land Quotes #Voice Quotes

“Imposing an alleged uniform general method upon everybody breeds mediocrity in all but the very exceptional. And measuring originality by deviation from the mass breeds eccentricity in them.”
“The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.”

Source : PBS "The New Perspectives on THE WEST", www.pbs.org.
“I'm not running a Fortune 500 company here. I'm not a bank controller. I run a gym. You have to expect a certain amount of sex. We're dealing with bodies, and trainers are very into being beautiful, so you're going to have people who are attracted to each other.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”
“Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (2016). “Primitive Culture”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications
“You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.”

Source : Letter to Denis Diderot. "The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany". Book by Colin Bingham, 1969.
“How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.312, W. W. Norton & Company
“My husband was getting his sea legs-rereading Joseph Conrad with a side order of C S Forester.”

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