Archibald Geikie Quotes
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
Walt Mossberg
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
Danai Gurira
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
Pankaj Mishra
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
Adam McKay
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
Orison Swett Marden
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
Iman
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
Jack Kent Cooke
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Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
Carla Gugino
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All my movies are achingly personal.
Quentin Tarantino
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I like a little bit of a rough look because it's sexy. But when a man has a rough look, and he goes and gets a cleanup, then it's very sexy as well.
Camila Alves
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I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.
Rachel Maddow
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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
Paige Davis
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
Malcolm Forbes
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Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.
Wang Jianlin
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In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.
Gabriel Lippmann
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
Zac Goldsmith
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I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
Kevin Whately
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I can only play characters that I feel like are real people and in a complete way and in such a whole way that if I fake any aspect of it I will have failed them and literally they're slaughtered.
Kristen Stewart
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The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.
Laurel Clark
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The question of how to structure our nation's financial system arose in the early years of the republic.
Jerome Powell
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I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.
Ellen Barkin
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This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Of the last honour I think the boulder fully worthy.
Archibald Geikie