Michael Dickinson Quotes

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

Michael Dickinson

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• Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Time
  • Best
  • Effort

• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Respect
  • New
  • Greatest

• I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Lost

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• In May 2013, my lawyer Dmitry Dinze filed a complaint about the conditions at PC-14 with the prosecutor's office. The deputy head of the colony, Lieutenant Colonel Kupriyanov, instantly made conditions at the camp unbearable.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • May
  • Lawyer
  • Office

• If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • You

• In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Human

• It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Years
  • Race
  • Five

• 'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • You
  • Dark
  • Serious

• I like happy things, I'm really calm and peaceful. I like birds, bees, I like people. I like funny things that make me happy and gleeful... like when my teacher sucked my wee-wee in pre-school!

  

  Eminem
  • People
  • School
  • Happy

• I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Parents

• When we do well, we do the best comedy on TV. That's not ego; that's just the way it is.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Comedy
  • Ego

• Capital was really safer in Russia than anywhere else. ... No true Marxist would allow sentiment to interfere with business.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Business
  • True

• Film is not a national business. It's international. And its centre will always be Hollywood.

  

  Eric Fellner
  • Business

• I don't use e-mail; I phone and fax. I think people who are hunched over their computer screens all day should get a life.

  

  Joan Collins
  • People
  • Life

• When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

  

  Mary Chapin Carpenter
  • Time

• Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.

  

  James Bay
  • Up
  • Great
  • Parents

• I believe Kendrick Lamar is not only an artist but an influencer of an entire generation. He represents Compton with great pride, and I am honored to present him with the Key to the City, which symbolizes our deep appreciation for his philanthropic work and commitment to our community.

  

  Aja Brown
  • Work
  • Great
  • Believe

• The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy... but infuriate the rest of us.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Company
  • Pay
  • Produce

• Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.) Is planning a ban on smut. Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. And his reverend occiput. Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut., Grit your molars and do your dut., Gird up your l__ns, Smite h_p and th_gh, We'll all be Kansas By and by.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Planning
  • Grit

• It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Failure
  • Belief

• As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find certain things, such as how someone sits or how demure they are. You get those things about everybody.

  

  Cedric Yarbrough
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Actors

• I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight. I think the evolution of insect flight is perhaps one of the most important events in the history of life. Without insects, there'd be no flowering plants. Without flowering plants, there would be no clever, fruit-eating primates giving TED Talks.

  

  Michael Dickinson
  • Important
  • History
  • Clever