Ornithology Science Quotes & Sayings

There's only the writing, which I admit to knowing very little about. But then it's probably best not to know. It allows one to work without expectation. Best to let the poem do the thinking while we concern ourselves with what's called the personal life. — Russell Edson

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life. — Paul Harvey

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology. — Georges Cuvier

The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes. — Elizabeth Hawes

It's not my fault that the gray of everyone else's stories makes the color stand out. — Kathy Hepinstall

I would be happy to play any roles. — Madeline Zima

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human. — Ron Perlman

It's like with Smallville, I'm sure those creators didn't know I had done a ton of Star Trek work. I was just the right guy for the job. Do I gravitate towards it? You do what you are best suited to do, so in me being a comic book fan and a fan of genre from my father being in Mission: Impossible and the spy genre and all that, when I go to audition, perhaps I have a leg up because I understand the universe better. — Phil Morris

When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests of this great state like a grizzly with cubs, as a mother naturally guards her own. Alaska, as a statewide family, we've got to fight for each other, not against and not let external, sensationalized distractions draw us off course. As an exciting year of unpredictable change begins, we, too, have our work cut out for us. And we're all in this together. Just like our musk ox, they circle up to protect their future when they are challenged. We've got to do the same. — Sarah Palin

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds. — Richard Feynman

I think people get excited about summer wardrobes and what they will wear on holiday, and people have an opportunity to wear things that they don't normally wear when they're in the city. — Jade Jagger

One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed. — Aaron Sorkin

But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible - and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all. — Kenn Kaufman

Blake took her face in his hands. You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go. — Debra Anastasia

Etta gave Will a small, knowing smile. Will, sometimes you have to love people for who they are, not who you want them to be. — Deanna Lynn Sletten

Sometimes you need lies to stay alive. — Mira Grant

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

My friends sometimes call me "Alamanci" (Turkish for German) But it actually doesn't matter to me. I would more likely consider myself a Turkish person who grew up in Germany. — Tarkan