Peter R. Grant Quotes

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

Peter R. Grant

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• Everyone is doing forensics.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Doing
  • Everyone
  • Forensics

• Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Wisdom
  • Hip Hop

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Time
  • Men
  • Want

• I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Proud
  • Deep
  • Roots

• How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Play
  • Film
  • Act

• I had no album title, and the album is like a journey in that it's a complete body of work. It's not just a couple of catchy songs and filler, so I felt that I needed to capture the essence of the album.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • Work
  • Couple
  • Body

• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Nature
  • Now
  • Adapt

• An interesting insight into the ruthlessness of studio executives: I was having a conversation with Alex Gansa, a creator of 'Homeland,' and I said, 'So you guys must have seen 'Life' and liked me in it, right? That's the most recent thing I've done over here.' And he went, 'No, Damian. You actually nearly didn't get the job because of 'Life.'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Different
  • She
  • Fashion

• Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Art
  • Organization

• You know, there is a long tradition in the U.S. of, um, promoting elections up to the point that you get an outcome you don't like. Look at Latin America in the Cold War.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Up
  • Long
  • War

• The immune system has evolved the capacity to react specifically with a very large number of foreign molecules with which it had no previous contact while avoiding reactivity for autologous molecules, naturally antigenic in other species or in other individuals of the same species.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Same
  • Very
  • Contact

• We did the World Cup to relaunch our international efforts, and that served as a foundation.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • World
  • Foundation
  • Cup

• I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • City
  • Confidence
  • Breathe

• It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn't pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • May
  • Guitar

• What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Earth

• Some men like Jack and some like JillI'm glad I like them both but stillI wonder if this freewheelingReally is an enlightened thing,Or is its greater scope a signOf deviance from some party line?In the strict ranks of Gay and StraightWhat is my status: Stray? Or Great?

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Great
  • Men
  • Party

• Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • God
  • Peace
  • Fall

• The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions as outpacing scientific management among U.S. innovations where bossing was concerned. Amidst the general miseries of proletarianization, workers also learned that one source of meager benefits and protections could lie in claiming a white skin.

  

  David Roediger
  • Lying
  • Innovation
  • Management

• I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, I don't think anyone, himself included, could contest - but at the same time, it's really amazing. I love the scope of his perfectionism.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Thinking
  • Amazing
  • Differences

• Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Taken
  • Care
  • Chance

• Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

  

  Peter R. Grant