Peripherally Quotes & Sayings

If new species arise very rapidly in small, peripherally isolated local populations, then the great expectation of insensibly graded fossil sequences is a chimera. A new species does not evolve in the area of its ancestors; it does not arise from the slow transformation of all its forbears.
co-author with Niles Eldridge — Stephen Jay Gould

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I love fashion, but maybe I love it peripherally. — Rashida Jones

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. — Chaim Potok

The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted. — Gary Shteyngart

I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director. — Bun B.

Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific comedy writers and are able to put these classic characters in new and interesting, and quite funny situations for today. — Bob Bergen

Maybe it does bother me,' he says, 'but only peripherally. It's like a buzzing fly, you know? Annoying, but not actually life-threatening. — Nicola Yoon

I think you're more an archivist than a librarian," he said.
He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful.
"They like everything," he said, "gum wrappers as much as books." He said this with a hint of disdain.
"Librarians like throwing away garbage to make space, but archivists," he said, "they're too crazy to throw anything out."
"You're right," I said. "I'm more of an archivist."
"And I'm more of a librarian," he said.
"Can we still be friends? — Avi Steinberg

One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally. — Michael Adam Hamilton

It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself. — Barack Obama

We're all born nameless, aren't we? And the name we end up with has only peripherally to do with our family tree. — Emma Bull

The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable. — Clayton Christensen

it's just a shame how that Hurricane Katrina tore up New Orleans and Mississippi. They knew better than to name a storm after a black woman. "Katrina." Not only was that bitch black, but the way she tore shit up, "Katrina" must have been from the projects too! — Ron'Netta LeDoux-Henderson

I let my [past] life in peripherally, because I'm interested in what's over there; I want to keep going forward. — Ted Danson

we all fool ourselves from time to time in order to keep our thoughts and beliefs consistent with what we have already done or decided — Robert B. Cialdini

It's your life. If you don't make it so that you get what you want, nobody else will. — Abby McDonald

We are only peripherally tied to the lives of others. It takes a long long time for us to become deeply involved with others, and for some this never happens. — Edward T. Hall

I'm aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I'd ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I've glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I've sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate. — Susan Jane Gilman

Do you know what Irish Alzheimer's is? It's when you forget everything but your grudges. — Dana Gould

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons. — John Muir

He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful. — Avi Steinberg