Sepkoski Quotes & Sayings

Still alive? (Randy)
No. I'm a walking corpse. Can't you tell? (Steele) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando Wooldridge, it's a coach's dream - X vs O. — Mychal Thompson

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one whokills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years? — Anton Chekhov

Despite whatever the left may say, or even believe, about their concern for the poor, their actual behavior shows their interest in the poor to be greatest when the poor can be used as a focus of the left's denunciations of society. — Thomas Sowell

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful. — Pat Pattison

The definition of salesmanship is the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way. — Ray Kroc

One measure of the greatness of a work is that the characters who play roles in the narrative feel its essential truth. As someone who is proud to have been there during much of the action David Sepkoski describes, I give his description and analysis of the history of paleobiology a five-star rating; to my mind, this actually was the way it was. — Niles Eldredge