Pithecanthropus Quotes & Sayings

Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes. — Eugene Dubois

I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me. — Marla Sokoloff

Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills. — Ronald Reagan

An uncontrolled sense of humor is often costly in business. — William Feather

Let the painter composing narrative pictures take pleasure in wealth and variety, and avoid repeating any part that occurs in it, so that the uniqueness and abundance attract people to it and delight the eye of the observer. I say that a narrative painting requires (depending on the scene), wherever the eye falls, a mixture of men of diverse appearances, of diverse ages and dress, combined together with women, children, dogs, horses, buildings, fields, and hills. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Lot of damn mixin' things up and saying, hey, what'll happen if we add a drop of the yellow stuff, and then goin' around without yer eyebrows for a fortnight. — Terry Pratchett

First strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude. — Robin S. Sharma

and perhaps not even Dr. Sproul, since his text underwent certain editorial revisions. However, this commentary represents an effort at making clear the precise position of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy as a whole. — R.C. Sproul

How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis? — Bertrand Russell

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song. — W.H. Davies

...and only if your wounds let me

I will stand beside you
in the black cold cave
and let fireflies nest my hair. — Karin Schimke

You can dig through public records and other documents to find out if a certain person had an Aryan grandmother, but there's no way to tell if that grandmother's Eocene ancestor was a sinanthropus or a pithecanthropus. — Stanislaw Lem

The barriers we face in life are so often the ones we create in our minds. As a child I couldn't open that wooden gate because my body prevented me from doing so. As a teenager it seemed I couldn't open that door because my mind held me hostage. The world that waited beyond it now was no longer one of safety or escape. Instead, I knew every time that I opened that door, it would be to a life of psychological insecurity and emotional entrapment. She - that cerebral leech who clung to all my thoughts - convinced me of this fact. Only with her could I find and maintain an asylum of mental armour — Leanne Waters

Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up. — Lawrence Block

People want to feel effortless about their clothes. I don't always get it, I make a lot of mistakes, but that's my goal. — Keith Michael

The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy's face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts. — Markus Zusak

He who lives by the crystal ball will eat shattered glass. — Ray Dalio

Earlier in life, I put family in front of faith. I've fixed that. But I always tried to keep work fourth on the list. I was proud when [my wife] Nellie told an interviewer, 'I never could tell whether John had a good practice or a bad practice, because he never brought it home' — John Wooden