Mary Leakey Quotes

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Mary Leakey

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• People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Awesome
  • Fantastic

• Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Culture
  • Stop

• I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Think
  • Said
  • Regret

• I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Real
  • Party
  • Clothes

• I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Work
  • Love
  • Career

• This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Home
  • Together
  • Earth

• I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Soul
  • Noble
  • Scenery

• A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • She
  • Power
  • Think

• Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • She
  • Mother
  • Father

• Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Children
  • Trying
  • School

• I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Sleep
  • Weird
  • Clothes

• 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' is a very important movie because it represents something new. The director Christophe Gans came up with the idea of taking a French legend and making it some kind of really strange, almost Chinese action movie. The result is something that I haven't seen anywhere before.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Up
  • Important
  • Movie

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Kid
  • Candy
  • Award

• He's actually a rather good ruler. Better, I suspect, than most of our Christian monarchs. He's certainly been good for Mysore. He's fetched it a deal of wealth, given it more justice than most countries enjoy in India and he's been tolerant to most religions, though I fear he did persecute some unfortunate Christians.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Good
  • Fear
  • Justice

• It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and willingly that one is led to say that this people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement.

  

  Etienne de La Boetie
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Enslavement

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• If you step back and think about it, just a little over two years ago, in 2009, it was not surprising at all to see Chinese exports growing at a 30-plus percent clip.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • Growing
  • Chinese

• Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Example
  • Warning

• No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

  

  Mary Leakey