Schmeichel Starfish Quotes & Sayings

It is not only the size of these redwoods but their strangeness that frightens them. And why not? For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period. Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. And then the glaciers moved down and wiped the Titans out beyond recovery. And only these few are left
a stunning memory of what the world was like once long ago. Can it be that we do not love to be reminded that we are very young and callow in a world that was old when we came into it? And could there be a strong resistance to the certainty that a living world will continue its stately way when we no longer inhabit it? — John Steinbeck

The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application. — Arthur Middleton

You'll be pleased to hear, Christopher, that I am no longer a Muslim liberal but an atheist [ ... ] I find that it obviates the necessity for any cognitive dissonance. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot. — Bruce McCulloch

It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works. — Isaac Asimov

The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic. — Chinua Achebe

Existing businesses aspiring to become adaptive corporations need to commit to understanding what exactly an adaptive innovator is and how that differs from both systemic designers and knowledge workers. In the end, they will actually need conscious planning to move them from a decades-imbedded orientation of knowledge work, to a new mindset of continuous adaptive innovation centered on the customer. — John Sculley

Here's what's interesting about Katharine Hepburn: she was born a girl but identified as a boy, so she shaved her head and rechristened herself Jimmy. — William J. Mann

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at. — Mahatma Gandhi

My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother. — Jessica Simpson

American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I don't want to do anything Freudian. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sorts of different styles of music, I like all sorts of different styles of clothes, I like all sorts of different colors of hair. — Joss Stone

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities. — Robert Anton Wilson