Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Solnit

There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.

Pierre Loti

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

Lee Iacocca

Here's what we should be doing. We've got to get off fossil fuels.

Dan Gebo

They don't all look alike. There are some very different shapes, with implications of how these fossils walked.

Charles Darwin

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.

Richard Brautigan

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.

Richard Branson

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels

Tamora Pierce

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.

Sylvia Plath

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.

Richard Dawkins

Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.

Russell Banks

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Russell Brand

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

William Wycherley

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

Sarah Silverman

I have lows, you know, everybody does ... but I kind of know how to handle it. I like to let myself wallow in it. I enforce it with terribly sad music, and it kind of pushes me through to the other side eventually, and I always know it's going to pass.

Vladimir Lenin

He who does not work shall not eat

Roland Barthes

How does meaning get into the image? Where does it end? And if it ends, what is there beyond?

Saint Francis de Sales

One rarely does well what one rarely does.

A.E. Howard

It can't be that simple. Rarely is constitutional language that open and shut.

Ronald Schmelzer

Having two languages is better than having 500,

Bill Ross

It is a language, and it touches on things oral or written language don't get to. When I first met Antonio, I wondered if he could speak. He was so shy.

Tony DiSanto

Laguna' was sort of told in the visual language of a lush teen drama. The idea here was to be a little grittier, more voyeuristic.

Carol Bruess

I think we're seeing a more relaxed, more offensive, some would say, use of language, the use of swearing.

Veda Upanishads

It is not the language but the speaker that we want to understand.

Dean Maki

I think that they are likely to make some small modification to the forward-looking language ... saying something like 'further policy firming might be needed' rather than 'may be needed'.

Stephen Sachs

He doesn't know what language is. He has been totally isolated,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.