Steller's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!

Mignon' Talise Padilla

#3. City Point is so beautiful, she says. In the night they cannot see the garbage that litters the beach, the seaweed and driftwood, the condoms that wallow sluggishly on the foam's edge, discarded on the shore like the minuscule loathsome animals of the sea. Yeah, it's something, he says slowly.

Norman Mailer

#4. You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

Joel Stein

#5. The examples of female success stories are important on the global scale, as they help to disseminate the idea of gender equality and to spread the roots for the actual implementation of equal rights for women and men and democratic values among different cultures, societies and traditions.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#6. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.

Wendell Berry

#7. Yo. Salt-and-Pepper. The name is Go-Go or Mr Go-Go, okay?

Matthew Reilly

#8. In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

Thomas Paine

#9. Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'

Jill Soloway