Daverio Mechanical Air Quotes & Sayings

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that evolution owes its generally progressive course, its successive conquests, and the impression it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding. — Jacques Monod

Dancers who were on the birth control pill - which essentially eliminates estrus - made about $193 per shift, also far less than ovulating women. — Larry Young

Pessimists have only pleasant surprises. — Nero Wolfe

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. — Edwin Land

In Pakistan lies our deliverance, defence and honour ... In our solidarity, unity and discipline lie the strength, power and sanction behind us to carry on this fight successfully. No sacrifice should be considered too great. We shall never accept any future constitution on the basis of a united India. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Some girl named Eva has him convinced that you put out after one beer."
"What?" My voice was as shrill as the ringing tardy bell
"I personally don't believe it" he went on blithely, "and I have a Porsche. Not as much leg room as a Beamer, but so much hotter, I'm told. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law. — Natalie Dormer

If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police would do it for him, and fewer people would have to die. — Paul Bloom

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative. — James Marsh

I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek. — Rachel Miner

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies. — John Bunyan

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love. — Henry Home, Lord Kames

We all would like to struggle like Tiger is struggling. — Jack Nicklaus

I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself! — Clara Bow

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again. — George Sand