Dampier Quotes

#1. It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If

Kay Redfield Jamison

#2. In the road ships must ride in 30, 40, or 50 fathom water, not above half a mile from the shore at farthest: and if there are many ships they must ride close one by another.

William Dampier

#3. The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos of phenomena.

William Cecil Dampier

#4. I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.

William Dampier

#5. The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.

William Dampier

#6. For every diet there's an equal and opposite binge (bulimia which is binging and purging is another way of depriving yourself).

Geneen Roth

#7. Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think.
(Commenting on how an accident led to the discovery of X-rays)

William Cecil Dampier

#8. The island Mayo is generally barren, being dry, as I said; and the best of it is but a very indifferent soil.

William Dampier

#9. While we were at work there came nine or 10 of the natives to a small hill a little way from us, and stood there menacing and threatening of us, and making a great noise. At last one of them came towards us, and the rest followed at a distance.

William Dampier

#10. But beyond the bright searchlights of science,
Out of sight of the windows of sense,
Old riddles still bid us defiance,
Old questions of Why and of Whence.

William Cecil Dampier

#11. But maybe half a lie is worse than a real lie.

Lillian Hellman

#12. We know the Republicans are happy to keep the country in the dark, and if we Democrats are to recapture the power necessary to assert our values, we must find the energy, courage, creativity and unity to map out a brighter day for the people we sincerely want to serve.

John Yarmuth

#13. Dampier is soft. Quote it, underline it, tape it and send it to him.

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. She managed to look like a perfect, pissed-off Alchemist. Now I wanted to kiss her more than ever.

Richelle Mead

#15. Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.

William Dampier

#16. I'm playing like Eric Dampier.

Shaquille O'Neal

#17. Love what you do and do what you love, even if it means living in a van and screaming at God every night.

Jeffrey Rowland

#18. Well, at the time, you have to remember that we were not successful. The Showtime offer, as it was presented to me, was half the money for half the show. I was not interested, at that point, in doing a smaller cast and a more simplified Arrested Development.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#19. What is a political party but a conspiracy?

Gore Vidal

#20. Sometimes you gotta do what's right for you and forget about everybody else. All that matters is what you want. What you need.

Miranda Kenneally

#21. The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

Richard Dreyfuss

#22. There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

William Cecil Dampier

#23. In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.

Barry Humphries

#24. It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.

William Cecil Dampier

#25. The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

William Dampier

#26. Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

Sylvia Townsend Warner