Top 39 Eskimos Quotes
#1. Eskimos are uncivilised because they don't have any shops.
Jodie Marsh
#2. I take a deep breath and put on my best smile. You could sell ice to Eskimos, my dad always says, and looking at this crowd, I think I'm going to have to be quite the salesman.
Alecia Whitaker
#3. The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#4. And one can better understand figures in arctic exploration so obsessed with their own achievement that they found it irksome to acknowledge the Eskimos, unnamed companions, and indefatigable dogs who helped them.
Barry Lopez
#5. Eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you
Jodi Picoult
#6. Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.
Matt Groening
#7. Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of those groups may be down-played or forgotten.
Gloria Steinem
#8. Eskimos have five words for different kinds of snow, because they live with it and it is important to them. But the Aztec language has but one word for snow, rain, and hail.
Alan W. Watts
#9. The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?
Sarah Jessica Parker
#10. People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
Bjork
#11. The Eskimos have thirty words for describing different kinds of snow, and modern Russian has about the same number of expressions to describe giving a bribe to a state official.
Victor Pelevin
#12. I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.
Sharon Stone
#13. We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
Umberto Eco
#14. The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.
Ashley Montagu
#15. I have always admired the Esquimaux (Eskimos). One fine day a delicious meal is cooked for dear old mother, and then she goes walking away over the ice, and doesn't come back.
Agatha Christie
#16. How comes Eskimos haven't turned into icy-cubes? Like ice people?....when they die where do they go? They can't get buried under the grass like we do....it's a whole new whole this Eskimo world, it really is
Jade Goody
#17. The Eskimos may have a hundred words for snow, but at that moment, I only had two: Fuck. Yeah.
Auralie Vierge
#18. What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe.
Gretel Ehrlich
#19. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly; but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.
Tommy Cooper
#20. If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?
Mike Gayle
#21. In fact the Chinese, the Russians, Eskimos from Greenland, and sub-Saharan Africans are all getting fatter, as is every other population when economic conditions improve and there is increased access to cheaper food.
James B. Johnson
#22. A few years ago England would have struggled to beat the Eskimos
Ian Botham
#23. Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together.
Paul Samuelson
#24. I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
Brian Andreas
#25. Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.
Fernando Torres
#26. We don't live the lives of Eskimos. We don't need to kill animals for fashion.
Charlize Theron
#27. Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her,
Lewis Carroll
#28. When a bad experience happens, you just chalk it up to the great fact that you just got five more jokes in the show.
Jeff Dunham
#29. I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.
Terry Pratchett
#30. But in public school i learned that it was not only natural but desirable that i should make my own decisions. it was not a matter of cultural background or personality or abilities; it was simply what was true and right
Sheena Iyengar
#31. Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.
Gilles Deleuze
#32. Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
Sarah Dessen
#33. You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.
Jon Lester
#34. The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
Margaret Mead
#36. The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.
Alexander Hamilton
#37. We'd torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that
Denis Johnson
#38. Randomly enough, my older sisters went to a makeup school when they were younger, so they're all really good at it. They've always told me that 'natural is better.'
Kendall Jenner
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