Natuurwetenschappelijke Quotes & Sayings

I'm very spontaneous. — Patti LaBelle

That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns. — Gerald R. Ford

Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally damaging practices into new profit opportunities. — Maurice Strong

On the day the tree bloomed in the fall, when its white apple blossoms fell and covered the ground like snow, it was tradition for the Waverleys to gather in the garden like survivors of some great catastrophe, hugging one another, laughing as they touched faces and arms, making sure they were all okay, grateful to have gotten through it. — Sarah Addison Allen

It makes me angry when people insist that I have a responsibility to do what they think I should do. — Pete Townshend

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative. — Elisabeth Rohm

As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness. — Gelett Burgess

I had been on cloud nine all day until that point. But the higher your cloud, the farther your rain falls. — Chris Colfer

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust. — Thomas Huxley

A man is what he is and no fancy lodgings or fine clothes will change that (Daniel Brennan) — Sabrina Jeffries

Let's chew on the chewables! — Pawan Mishra

The whole house, its very walls, was impregnated with a smell of vitality that he was unused to. He thought about his own apartment, where it was so easy to decide simply not to exist. — Paolo Giordano

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality. — Stanley Kubrick