Ichthyologists Quotes & Sayings

I know it hurts, honey." Mom flipped off the gas stove and wiped her hands on her apron, turning to face me fully. "And it's okay to hurt. Hurting is just as much a part of life as joy, maybe even more important. Falling down teaches you how to stand up." I — Penny Reid

Life on earth survives thanks to diversity, says Sekunda, because changing circumstances means today's winners can suddenly become tomorrow's losers. When the meteor hits, when the Green Revolution fails, when the bees unexpectedly die, the kind of anomalous diversity found in the Galapagos Islands - or in the technology of Japan - is exactly what will save us from the most dangerous failure of all: global success. — Momus

The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act. — Herodotus

Sometimes it's hard for me to hang on to the horse or pole. And I want to bite just about every fucking hand that extends toward me because I can no longer tell which are good and which are bad. Maybe like there in't good and bad anymore. — Matthew Quick

The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to subjects solely in virtue of their having had those experiences themselves. Is there a way of thinking about seeing something red, say, that you get from having had those experiences, and so isn't available to a blind person? — David Papineau

Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to catalyze the next phase of your evolution. Do what's necessary to run into that person. — Rob Brezsny

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey

Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all. — Bruce Springsteen

Exactly what the great white eats in an emergency is a mystery ichthyologists solved by the late twentieth century after decades of investigation: whatever it wishes. — Michael Capuzzo

Nothing was ever how you wanted it to be. Not anymore. Not for me. — Kami Garcia

I want excitement; and I don't care what form it takes or what I pay for it, so long as it makes my heart beat. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good. — Richard Sibbes

You know, I don't only play for the record books. — Roger Federer

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine. — Carol Ann Duffy

God has to let fags in heaven. Who else could help him decorate, cook, and entertain? We're kind of everywhere. — Anthony Paull

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject. — Robert Todd Carroll