George C. Williams Quotes

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.

George C. Williams

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• The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Rock

• The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Rock
  • Sometimes
  • Stars

• I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

  

  Ice T
  • Long
  • Feel
  • Rap

• The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Nature
  • Complicated
  • Cosmic

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Me
  • Everything

• Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • Security
  • Immigration
  • Legal

• By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Beginning
  • Picture
  • End

• I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Going
  • Debt
  • Ceiling

• Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Peace
  • Making
  • Bread

• People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Consequences

• I'm not interested in forcing my beliefs on my readers.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Interested
  • Beliefs
  • Forcing

• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Up
  • Responsibility
  • One Word

• We don't work with anyone.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Work
  • Anyone

• The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Women
  • Why

• If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Patience

• I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

  

  Gary Locke
  • Good
  • Mystery
  • Seattle

• I do wanna get married. It just sounds great. You get to go grocery shopping together, rent videos, and the kissing and the hugging and the kissing and the hugging under the cozy covers. Mmmm! But sometimes I worry that I don't wanna get married as much as I want to get dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough. That might feel pretty good, too.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Good
  • Great
  • Together

• It has been hard, I know, my daughters, but one word alone wipes out all of the hardships: love.

  

  Sophocles
  • Love
  • Know
  • Word

• What if we have to figure out how to live and what to believe on our own, without setting the Bible up as a false idol—or an oracle that gives is a direct line of communication with the Almighty?

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Believe
  • Bible
  • Communication

• Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • People

• I care about climate change because of our children. I want to safeguard their future.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Children
  • Future
  • Change

• I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Writing
  • Strange

• Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.

  

  George C. Williams