Ornithology Cornell Quotes

Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds. ~ Yuja Wang

Aesthetics is to artists as ornithology is to birds. ~ Barnett Newman

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology. ~ Georges Cuvier

Where did you hide your Mockingbirds?" he asks.
"Ornithology," she replies.
"You hid TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD with the bird books?" I ask.
Elena shrugs. "I was being ironic. ~ Paul Acampora

Only fools and criminals didn't know why they did things. ~ Paul Cornell

Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death. ~ Paul Cornell

Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority. ~ Paul Cornell

The white moth of hope fluttered before her face. ~ Cornell Woolrich

Everybody is influenced by someone. ~ Chris Cornell

As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight") ~ Cornell Woolrich

There's a lot of music that I don't like. ~ Chris Cornell

An actress' best friend is a body which responds instinctively to thought. ~ Katharine Cornell

I'm looking California and feeling Minnesota. ~ Chris Cornell

You make me drop things
Like all the plans I had for a life without you ~ Chris Cornell

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed. ~ Joseph Cornell

She gives the night its dreams. ~ Chris Cornell

Stories are about endings,' he'd said. 'They don't mean anything unless they come to an end. ~ Paul Cornell

We are neighbors in a modern world where proximity is relative and the threshold to our hearts moves outside time and space. ~ Chris Cornell

I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study ~ Cornell University Library

People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed. ~ Chris Cornell

The fuel for imagination comes from the feeling in your heart. ~ Charles A. Cornell

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.
("Three O'Clock") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures. ~ Joseph Cornell

You need to have dreams. Everything starts with a dream. ~ Sheila Cornell-Douty

DI Cartwright: The cat is booby trapped? DI Quill: Welcome to my world. ~ Paul Cornell

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder. ~ Joseph Cornell

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth. ~ Don Cornell

She's probably good at compartmentalizing her feelings. Or maybe she just doesn't have a soul. ~ J. Cornell Michel

All a guy can do is die once. The big difference is whether he dies clean - or dirty ... ("I'm Dangerous Tonight") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Everyone should be comfy during the apocalypse. ~ J. Cornell Michel

I'm not a psychopath; my brain just works a little differently than that of the average person. ~ J. Cornell Michel

I put millions of miles
Under my heels
And still too close to you
I feel ~ Chris Cornell

The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line. ~ Cornell Woolrich

I'm sure my unique brain tastes the same as a normal brain. Actually, mine might be slightly tastier. ~ J. Cornell Michel

I'm not usually in a talkative mode. ~ Chris Cornell

You only elect a dictator once. ~ Charles A. Cornell

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism.
Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health. ~ Paul Cornell

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body") ~ Cornell Woolrich

The passage of time may have distorted my memories, but no amount of time can erase my emotions. ~ Dana Cornell

It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Swallowing rivers belongs to the sea.

When the whole thing washes away, don't run to me. ~ Chris Cornell

Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience. ~ Joseph Cornell

You should never rely on public transportation during the apocalypse. Everyone should know that. ~ J. Cornell Michel

You can always tell a car door, no other door sounds quite like it.
("New York Blues") ~ Cornell Woolrich

I paced while he slept, ricocheting like a dove skidding the lonely confines of a Joseph Cornell box. ~ Patti Smith

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females. ~ Ezra Cornell

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight") ~ Cornell Woolrich

I'm just trying to do my part to save the world. ~ J. Cornell Michel

Beauty should be shared for it enhances our joys.
To explore its mystery is to venture towards the sublime. ~ Joseph Cornell

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die") ~ Cornell Woolrich

I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed) ~ Cornell Woolrich

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges. ~ Ezra Cornell

She was the kind of shopkeeper who finishes the paragraph she is reading before waiting on the customer. ~ Cornell Woolrich

So," he said to Sefton, "you knew that ghosts were real ... and you led us to the 'most haunted building in London.' What's up with that? ~ Paul Cornell

He felt that his life was about to turn around, but Burt had no way of knowing that his fairy tale would eventually turn into a nightmare. ~ Jillian Cornell

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death") ~ Cornell Woolrich

I don't think [Russell T Davies] sits up at night worrying about canonicity, except for the times when I'm pretty sure he does. ~ Paul Cornell

Be yourself is all that you can do. ~ Chris Cornell

And the blood remembers what the heart has never learned. The approach to kill. ("The Moon Of Montezuma") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager. ~ Katharine Cornell

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. ~ Eric Allin Cornell

Photography has the capacity to provide images of man and his environment that are both works of art and moments in history. ~ Cornell Capa

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.
("New York Blues") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Have faith, hope, and charity, that's the way to live successfully. ~ Don Cornell

Being broke didn't seem so awful as it had yesterday, being broke but being at peace with the world.
("Don't Wait Up For Me Tonight") ~ Cornell Woolrich

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war. ~ Cornell Capa

Sometimes love creeps upon me, and I suddenly sort of just realise that it's there when i start shaving my legs every day and singing on my bicycle. ~ Paul Cornell

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think. ~ Chris Cornell

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.' ~ Chris Cornell

Louisville, an hour after dark, is a carpet of gilt thumbtacks below them, with straight, twinkling lines like strings of beads leading out from it. Southeastward now, toward the Tennessee state-line. ("Jane Brown's Body") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it. ~ Eric Allin Cornell

I actually think to some degree that people are down for longer shows with an acoustic show. ~ Chris Cornell

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much. ~ Chris Cornell

The Concerned Photographer produces images in which genuine human feeling predominates over commercial cynicism or disinterested formalism. ~ Cornell Capa

I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music. ~ Chris Cornell

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people. ~ Chris Cornell

Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don't you're a fool. ("Jane Brown's Body") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco. ~ Eric Allin Cornell

She is in full delirium. But delirium is the antithesis of death; it is the body's
struggle to survive. ("Jane Brown's Body") ~ Cornell Woolrich

The words you say never live up to the words in your head. ~ Chris Cornell

What formed me as a musician, a songwriter, the sound and personality of my band, a whole lot of that happened well before 1991. ~ Chris Cornell

There's an innocuous explanation for everything. Everything is a coin that has two sides to it, and one side is innocuous but the other can be ominous.
("New York Blues") ~ Cornell Woolrich

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side. ~ Ezra Cornell

When Captain America died, Americans heard it in an American way: through the media. When Captain Britain died, the British felt it in their chests. ~ Paul Cornell

There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes. ~ Cornell Woolrich

Monsters were one thing. She was used to monsters, she could deal with monsters. A noise in the darkness, with nothing attached to it, was another. ~ Paul Cornell

Actors are as anxious about the state of audiences as aviators are over weather conditions. ~ Katharine Cornell

It's six o'clock; my drink is at the three-quarter mark - three-quarters down not three-quarters up - and the night begins.
("New York Blues") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Rumpty! he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant. ~ Paul Cornell

Wisdom: Oh, fantastic. We've got an army made up of fairies and Beatles, and we're fighting H. G. Wells' martians and bloody Jack the Rippers. Who's next? Dick Van Dyke? Mr Bean? John Cleese and his dead parrot? ~ Paul Cornell

The camera is an extension of yourself ... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth. ~ Cornell Capa

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio. ~ Chris Cornell

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. ~ Chris Cornell

Perry, the manager, had come up with him, in trousers and bathrobe. He was a stout, jovial-looking man ordinarily, but right now he was only stout.
("The Room With Something Wrong") ~ Cornell Woolrich

Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come. ~ Chris Cornell

He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret! ~ Paul Cornell

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I have liked. ~ Chris Cornell

I have a hard time narrowing things down to ten or 12 songs. If I walk off stage in anything less than two hours, it just feels strange. It feels early. ~ Chris Cornell

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process. ~ Chris Cornell