Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Ford

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

Samuel Beckett

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Yvon Chouinard

I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals!

Arthur Levitt

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

Michael Bean

It will make the extinction of species much more likely,

John Keegan

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

Jared Diamond

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

Asa Gray

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Brian Perkins

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Sean McGowan

It could be this week, it could be next week, but I think we're going to see that sudden drop.

John Lyboldt

I think you will see it repeat itself; it will be more next year and the year after.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

William Hazlitt

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

Robert Wilson

The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

Jessica Young

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

Gordon Schnulle

I want to see what the landscape is really like now.

Newt Gingrich

I will not rest until I have transformed the landscape of American politics.

Kate Green

Touch is the landscape / of what is possible.

Joan Didion

There's a lot of landscape I never would have described if I hadn't been homesick. The impulse was nostalgia.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.