Quotes About Ethnology

#1. In order for ethnology to live, its object must die; by dying, the object takes its revenge for being 'discovered' and with its death defies the science that wants to grasp it.

Jean Baudrillard

#2. From the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard came a note from Professor F. W. Putnam, rapturous in his commendation of "your great work.

Timothy Egan

#3. [Attending the Sun Dance] There was a smattering of tourists, both serious and recreational. Professors of anthropology and ethnology. Writers of fact and other fiction. A family from Wisconsin pausing on their long, sacred pilgrimage to The Land of Disney.

James D. Doss

#4. ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Ambrose Bierce

#5. I'm accustomed to thinking of literature as a search for knowledge; in order to move onto existential terrain I need to consider it in relation to anthropology, ethnology, and mythology.

Italo Calvino

#6. Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

Katharine Tynan

#7. We're all connected now, I think as I send it off into cyberspace. Everyone and everything.

J.P. Delaney

#8. A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

Salman Khan

#9. I spent a lot of hours on the baseball field doing whatever I could do to get better.

Evan Longoria

#10. compliance, compliance begets tolerance, and tolerance brings peace." He flicks his ferret-like gaze across them all. "Disorder is unacceptable. The greater good depends upon all of you,

Joe Hart

#11. While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil War fighting for the South, the modern-day Rangers were created to help rejuvenate a defeated and demoralized U.S. imperialism after the war in Vietnam.

Brendan Sexton III

#12. The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Ella Leya

#13. The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.

Alexander MacLaren

#14. Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

Evan Esar

#15. There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.

Layne Staley

#16. I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Doug E. Fresh

#17. Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

Gabrielle Roth

#18. A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

Laura Schlessinger

#19. I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions ... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

Colin Firth

#20. Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.

Zhang Yimou