Short Grand Canyon Quotes & Sayings

One option was to become a writer; the other, which seemed more viable, was to go properly mad. I would be supported by the state and would never have to work or take on any responsibility. — Paulo Coelho

As a boy, I felt ashamed of being Mexican. I'd say I was Hawaiian. — Juan Felipe Herrera

The essence of the evening was captured by a question from the audience. Someone asked: "What would it take to change your worldview?" My answer was simple: Any single piece of evidence. If we found a fossilized animal trying to swim between the layers of rock in the Grand Canyon, if we found a process by which a new huge fraction of a radioactive material's neutrons could become protons in some heretofore fantastically short period of time, if we found a way to create eleven species a day, if there were some way for starlight to get here without going the speed of light, that would force me and every other scientist to look at the world in a new way. However, no such contradictory evidence has ever been found - not any, not ever. — Bill Nye

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy. — David Suchet

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied. — Aldous Huxley

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture. — Peter Singer

The laws only can determine the punishment of crimes, and the authority of making penal laws can only reside with the legislator, who represents the whole society united by the social compact. — Cesare Beccaria

For a few days after getting into the water the toad concentrates on building up his strength by eating small insects. Presently he has swollen to his normal size again, and then he goes through a phase of intense sexiness. — George Orwell

Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered. — Ovid

I studied to be a chef as a side thing, a little hobby that I enjoyed doing, but I ended up falling madly in love with the food and the lifestyle. — Kelis

What did we want with an Empire! It — Ford Madox Ford

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. — Mary Shelley

And thank you for not putting it in your book.
And fuck you for not putting it in your book. — Lynn Coady