Road Cut Geology Quotes & Sayings

You wouldn't dress a salad rashly or impassively. Why undress a woman with anything but the same attention. — Chloe Thurlow

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise. — Jimmy Buffett

No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased observation of nature in the raw is mythology. Creative work, in geology and anywhere else, is interaction and synthesis: half-baked ideas from a bar room, rocks in the field, chains of thought from lonely walks, numbers squeezed from rocks in a laboratory, numbers from a calculator riveted to a desk, fancy equipment usually malfunctioning on expensive ships, cheap equipment in the human cranium, arguments before a road cut. — Stephen Jay Gould

It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting. — Barack Obama

Do not throw me out. Please. — Diane Samuels

Great leaders inspire us to go places we would never go on our own, and to attempt things we never thought we had in us. — Hans Finzel

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history. — Rusty Schweickart

So." [Isobel] cleared her throat. "What are we doing?"
"We," [Varen] said at last, "are doing a project on Poe."
"Didn't he marry his cousin or something?"
"The man is a literary god and that's all you have to say? — Kelly Creagh

Writers are magicians. They write down words, and, if they're good, you believe that what they write is real, just as you believe a good magician has pulled the coins out of your ear, or made his assistant disappear. But the words on the page have no connection to the person who wrote them. Writers live other peoples' lives for them. — W.P. Kinsella

Love hath never known a law beyond its own sweet will. — John Greenleaf Whittier