Gradualistic Equilibrium Quotes & Sayings

I think blocking a shot at a crucial point of the game is the most incredible feeling. — Jermaine O'Neal

I love Canadians. I think we make an impact around the world just when people meet us, and whenever I meet another Canadian, I see it as well. — Kiesza

After using four different languages on an album, it's tough to decide which one I'm gonna actually learn to speak. I always study the lyric, make sure I know what I'm singing, and try to get the pronunciation as perfect as possible. — Josh Groban

The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment. — Thomas Bangalter

The theory of punctuated equilibrium, proposed by Niles Eldredge and myself, is not, as so often misunderstood, a radical claim for truly sudden change, but a recognition that ordinary processes of speciation, properly conceived as glacially slow by the standard of our own life-span, do not resolve into geological time as long sequences of insensibly graded intermediates (the traditional, or gradualistic, view), but as geologically "sudden" origins at single bedding planes. — Stephen Jay Gould

The conversation was like the sort one has in dreams - mad but interesting. — Robert Graves

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about. — Ester Dean

Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries. J.B. PRIESTLEY — Janice Lane Palko

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died.
They are only sleeping at the bottom of your mind,
waiting for our call. We have need for them.
They represent the wisdom of our race. — Stanley Kunitz

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. — Daniel Keyes

People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies. — Jean Cocteau

When you're really cute that's all you have to be, you make a career out of it. someone asks you what you do, you say, 'nothing. i'm cute. — Elmore Leonard

It is just that I don't know how I could live without the hope of her. It would be like learning to live with wooden legs. — George Eliot

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals. — Henry Bergh