Evolusion Quotes & Sayings

Polish the young woman's ego like wax on a wood floor, Shinola on shoes, spit on an apple. — Dennis Vickers

Some rules are bigger than the universe. — Richelle Mead

I never wanted to be a filmmaker. I still, sometimes, think I got sidetracked by this, like this is a tangent. My main thing was painting; I was just going to do that. — Taika Waititi

There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big. — Leonard Slatkin

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it. — Van Morrison

Being lonely as a kid might well have been necessary for me," I told audiences in my talks. "If I'd had the friends I dreamt of, I'd never have spent the time to become the machine aficionado I am today. Now that I'm grown I can put that in perspective. The world is full of friendly people with no technical skills. The few of us who see into machines like others see into humans are singularly uncommon, and we're valued for that. If we use a technology like TMS to help a lonely teen today, will we be taking that exceptional ability away from him tomorrow? Should we trade friends in seventh grade for designing a working spaceship at age twenty-five? — John Elder Robison

Yeah, I definitely pulled something in my back. I woke up in agony. So I took a break from rover planning. Instead, I spent the day taking drugs and playing with radiation. — Andy Weir

In a society that glorifies the pioneers, it's easy to think that an endeavor is only worth pursuing if you can be the first to pursue it. — Wendy Kopp

In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure. — Hu Jintao

Gold is money. Everything else is credit. — J. P. Morgan

Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters
who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity. — Washington Irving

At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active piety, there would have been a general presumption against his medical skill. — George Eliot

I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance. — Raymond Cruz

I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through. — Amy Sedaris

Luther, he ruined the bible by translating it into their own language. — Umberto Eco