Punctuated Equilibria Quotes & Sayings

In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants. — Daniel H. Wilson

I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace. — Alexandra Cassavetes

Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you,
If they catch you they'll give you a month or two,
They'll tie you up with wi-er
Behind the Black Mari-er,
So ring your bell
And pedal like hell
On a bicycle made for two. — Iona Opie

One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good! — Joe Jonas

The history of life is more adequately represented by a picture of 'punctuated equilibria' than by the notion of phyletic gradualism. The history of evolution is not one of stately unfolding, but a story of homeostatic equilibria, disturbed only 'rarely' (i.e. rather often in the fullness of time) by rapid and episodic events of speciation. — Stephen Jay Gould

This is how diseases are usually spread. Someone spits on a guy, somebody has sex with a chimp. Next thing you know ... AIDS. — CM Punk

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising. — Gustav Holst

I felt as conspicuous as a baby whale in a goldfish pond. — Stephen King

In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win. — Keith Johnstone

Each time you come in contact with someone this week , notice and engage that person in conversation. Realize that his or her job is not just to bag your groceries or take your complaint over the phone, but that this is a real person with a history and a life. — Holly Sprink

I stand in front of him, trying to figure out how to look friendly or normal and where to put my hands ... It seems ridiculous suddenly that people have hands and no place to put them. — Brenna Yovanoff

All money is essentially merchandize. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

I don't want to be a great executive without being a great mum and a great wife. I don't want to look back and say I wish I had done things differently. 'Balance' is a really big word for me. — Angela Ahrendts

Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize. — Douglas Brinkley