Miocene Period Quotes & Sayings

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period. Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery. And only these few are left
a stunning memory of what the world was like once long ago. Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it? And could there be a strong resistance to the certainty that a living world will continue its stately way when we no longer inhabit it? — John Steinbeck

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. — Chuck Noll

The things which belong to others please us more, and that which is ours, is more pleasing to others — Publilius Syrus

For the casual viewer, Kurosawa's films can be an exercise in endurance. — Jerry White

As a rule those who were least remarkable for intelligence showed the greater powers of survival. Such people recognized their own deficiencies and the superior intelligence of their opponnents; fearing that they might lose a debate or find themselves out-manoeuvred in intrigue by their quick-witted enemies, they boldly launched straight into action; while their opponents, overconfident in the belief that they would see what was happening in advance, and not thinking it necessary to seize by force what they could secure by policy, were the more easily destroyed because they were off their guard. 84 Certainly it was in Corcyra that — Thucydides

I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke. — Skylar Grey

The process of acting, not necessarily the business of acting, but the actual doing of it in the moment is my greatest kind of personal passion, the thing that brings me alive the most. Also, my two children. — Grant Bowler

You okay?" I asked Rosie and Rosie gave me an "are you nuts, that lunatic just tied me up with duct tape" look. — Kristen Ashley

I want to be there when you get Cubbin. And I don't want to be left out of the television show either. Little people are sexy now. Have you seen Game of Thrones? We're hot. — Janet Evanovich

'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. — Nancy Gibbs

I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives. — Richelle E. Goodrich

An enlightened master is a perpetual source of the cosmic light because his mind is always merged with nirvana. — Frederick Lenz

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing. — Tommy Shaw

This knowledge, so inaccessible, so formidable, the Fool, in his innocent idiocy, already possesses. — Michel Foucault

Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right! — Philip Schultz