Famous Ole Miss Quotes & Sayings

In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical science, laden with history's inevitable imponderables. We evolutionary biologists cannot generate a Cretaceous Park to observe exactly what killed the dinosaurs; and, unlike "harder" scientists, we usually cannot resolve issues with a simple experiment, such as adding tube A to tube B and noting the color of the mixture. — Jerry A. Coyne

On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even easier, softer pleasure zone to hide out in. You will wish you had ventured out more. That you had spoken up more. Tried some things. Reinvented yourself one more time. — Steve Chandler

If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast. — Charles Dickens

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase. — Michael Feinstein

Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot. — Marlon Wayans

Most recently, Speaker of the House John Boehner (who has said he would commit suicide before voting to increase the minimum wage unless said increase were tied to massive tax cuts for the wealthy and their corporations)53 suggested that what's been holding back job creation in America is not the lack of employment openings but "this idea that has been born . . . that you know, I really don't have to work . . . I think I'd rather just sit around."54 According to conservative leaders, many Americans actually enjoy long-term unemployment. — Tim Wise

Miracles only for those who want to try and be grateful — CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form. — Brandon Uranowitz

It's rather a strong check to one's self-complacency to find how much of one's right doing depends on not being in want of money. — George Eliot

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent ... — Ludwig Wittgenstein

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love. — E. M. Forster

She is focused on living her own full life, following her own agenda and cultivating her actual self, rather than reinventing herself or pining away to be someone she's not. — Debra Ollivier

I spread my arms. In the Rainbow Jungles of Ever there lives what I affectionately call, killer ducks. — Jen Wylie

Kristin nods, marching ahead of Clark, who gazes as the impossible smallness of Kristin's ankles and feet. Years later, while imprisoned for drug charges, he will think of those tiny feet and know he is forever doomed for having lied to her, for having harmed something so delicate, so defenseless, so small, so weak. — Joe Meno

Everyone wants to be young, beautiful and rich. I don't say that scornfully: there are worse things to want to be. But that's why, for example, people don't begrudge Kate Moss how much she earns for a day's work but will fulminate over the take-home pay of some fat, old Water Board exec. — Nigella Lawson