Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist

John Eccles

I came to realise that Darwinian evolution had no explanation of me as an experiencing self.

Stephen Meyer

Our policy proposal for science education is that students should learn the strengths and the scientific weaknesses of modern Darwinian theory.

Tina Brown

'The Daily Beast' competes in the highly Darwinian media world filled with hyper-smart, highly adaptive, tool-using people with opposable thumbs.

Laura Martin

It's a Darwinian experiment. Viacom is hoping that one or two hosts will be as popular as Howard. But Howard is a unique talent and he has loyal advertisers.

George Gaylord Simpson

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

Bruce Lipton

If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.

Bruce Cameron

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

John Herrera

He knew the structure. I knew him, and I was hoping he would come up and provide a kind of moral support, and I would teach him the personnel side.

Ron Gardenhire

He likes to play and he'll play through anything, so when he has to sit out, you know he's hurting. That's a little scary. I'm just hoping it's not a lingering thing.

Jon Gruden

He's distraught, he's nervous, he's uptight about this, as he should be. ... He's put a lot into this. We're just hoping he can come through this better than maybe we anticipate.

Dennis Ruedinger

He seems to be doing all right. We're hoping by (today) he'll be able to do some light workouts and get some shooting in. It looks like he'll be on pace to do that. We'll be able to go pretty solid on Wednesday and Thursday with him.

Peter Davenport

I thought we played very well, a big improvement and I'm hoping that things are starting to click,

Eugenie Scott

Lawsuits, from my standpoint, are a sign of failure. We're hoping the lessons of Dover can be communicated throughout the rest of the country.

Cliff Reed

I was waiting, hoping for the day this happened.

Justin Hare

I was actually a little nervous because I was really hoping we would be a No. 16 or a 15 seed. When they called out we were a 15 seed, it was really exciting.

Ravi Moss

I was just hoping we'd find a way to win. I feel real safe when Rondo has the ball.

Gao Zhidan

In the Olympic history, the hosts seldom do well in shooting.

Rick Oltman

Talk show hosts are businessmen; they have to sell soap. If immigration reform didn't resonate with their audience, they wouldn't be talking about it.

Jenny Mack

We especially want bartenders, restaurants and party hosts to know there is a way for people to stay off the roads, even if it means we pick them up.

Frank Beamer

I think with our fans, taking that next day off is the least of their worries, ... They're loyal fans, and they'll be ready for Thursday night.

Bill Davis

He's generous, and he's loyal to the area.

Isiah Thomas

I am loyal to winning and I am not loyal to any singular individual. I'm going to do what I need to do to make our team better.

James Yee

I am a patriotic, loyal American, ... I am not a terrorist nor am I a spy.

Rob Zombie

In the US everybody is about what's new and what's next and they don't really build a real loyalty as much as in Europe - if you were ever good and they liked you, they will treat it with the respect that it still matters.

Richard Paul Evans

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of more than just a storm of emotion-one of loyalty and divine friendship. And though it may be temporarily blinded by adversity, it never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time- while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.

Richard Wright

Love grows from stable relationships, shared experience, loyalty, devotion, trust.

Richelle Mead

Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

Richelle Mead

The only way to lose a kingdom is if your power drops or..well, if you're killed." "I'm sure Volusian would love to help with that." My minion walked near me, needing no horse to move swiftly. Upon hearing his name, he said, "I would perform the deed with great relish and much suffering on your part, mistress." "You can't put a price on that kind of loyalty," I told Kiyo.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

William Devane

Ultimately the Emmys are a popularity contest.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Mark Shaw

The half-marathon seems to be the most popular event.

Tom Adams

The idea that video stores are magically going to go away for some reason is misguided. It is still the most popular way to watch movies.

Richard Lewis

You can't really find somebody that has been so prolific, so 'on the scene,' so popular and cutting-edge as Carlin, ... He is the Rolling Stones of stand-up.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Truman Capote

Talent is a valued tormentor.

Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Robert Mankoff

A lot of what the Internet is showing is that talent is more disperse than gatekeepers such as myself.

Walter Smith

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

Ruth Gordon

You have to have a talent for having talent.

Young Buck

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

Yoko Ono

You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.

Jon Heder

I think we have a unique voice we really want to get out there.

Richard Dawkins

Saddam Hussein's mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars... In a small way his execution represents a wanton and vandalistic destruction of important research data.

William James

We must not just patch and tinker with life. We must keep renewing it. Embrace novelty and uniqueness.

Will Ferrell

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Richard M. Nixon

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

Richard Foreman

I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

Robert Duvall

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

Vera Wang

I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.