Bering Quotes

#1. The Thieves of Manhattan is a sly and cutting riff on the book-publishing world that is quite funny unless you happen to be an author, in which case the novel will make you consider a more sensible profession-like being a rodeo clown, for example, or a crab-fisherman in the Bering Sea.

Carl Hiaasen

#2. (Present-day anthropologists defend the thesis that the American Indians were in fact originally Mongolians who crossed over by the Bering Strait.)

Barbara W. Tuchman

#3. America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait ... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

Isabel Wilkerson

#4. Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.

P. J. O'Rourke

#5. Steller's sea cow, named after the German naturalist Georg Steller, who discovered a small community of them living on Bering Island, off the coat of Siberia, in 1741. Hunted mercilessly by humans, within thirty years of its discovery by Steller this remarkable species was extinct.

Bill Bryson

#6. My heart leaves, hitchhikes right out of my body, heads north, catches a ferry across the Bering Sea and plants itself in Siberia with the polar bears and ibex and long-horned goats until it turns into a teeny-tiny glacier.
Because I imagined it.

Jandy Nelson

#7. Downtown is before them, as high and bright as the aurora borealis rising from the black water of the Bering Sea.

Neal Stephenson

#8. This type of psychological loneliness is perhaps felt most acutely when we are as close to another person's body as is humanly possible. As the poet William Butler Yeats wrote rather dramatically, The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

Jesse Bering

#9. The only happy and relevant people are those who have learnt to walk with change

Vinita Dawra Nangia

#10. Let us not give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day.

Pope Francis

#11. George III was incapable of passing on a sense of mission to his son might a given some purpose to the crown prince's existence

Henrik Bering

#12. Someone could be paraphilic in both his erotic target and his favorite sex act. I mean, really, any pellismophilic nebulophile (someone whose most passionate moments involve masturbating in the foggy mist while listening to a person stutter) can see that.

Jesse Bering

#13. There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.

Thomas Gray

#14. One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.

Mel Odom

#15. Regard for the past only extends to its outward forms.

Henrik Bering

#16. Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!

Warren Spector

#17. In adopting a patently false but stubbornly clung-to mythology of human sexuality that makes demons out of natural drives, we've entered a stage of moral sickness, not of moral health.

Jesse Bering

#18. Almost succeeded in single-handedly shooing the faithful out of their pews in the French cathedrals. Unfortunately for him, this notion of God the Creator is nearly as rampant in the world today as it was when the first prophet sat down to put words in God's mouth.

Jesse Bering

#19. He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.

Thomas H. Cook

#20. How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?

Boyle Roche

#21. You don't understand the things I do, but I do have my reasons. They're not your reasons, so they're not real to you, but they're real to me, and that's enough.

Tom Topor

#22. I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

James Russell Lowell

#23. Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing

Yuval Noah Harari

#24. Sing, dance, laugh, love, or you'll be stuck with words.

Marty Rubin

#25. I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

Van Jones

#26. Unconsciously, I fell in love with the small round sphere, with its amusing and capricious rebounds which sometimes play with me.

Fabien Barthez