Richard Owen Quotes

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Cool

• For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

  

  Karen O
  • Space
  • Rest
  • California

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Kids
  • Parent
  • Excel

• I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.

  

  Washed Out
  • Interesting
  • Child
  • Internet

• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Chance

• In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • World
  • Great
  • Music

• One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Things
  • Still

• I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.

  

  Young Buck
  • World
  • Feel

• The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.

  

  Jack Charlton
  • Job
  • Something
  • Irish

• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Life
  • World
  • Perfect

• I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Know
  • Travel
  • Author

• Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

  

  Barbara Pym
  • Man
  • Very
  • Obscure

• I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Tea
  • Serve
  • Clean

• If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Way
  • Words
  • Chance

• For most people, honesty is such an unusual departure from their standard modus operandi - such an abherration in their workaday mendacity - that they feel obliged to alert you when a moment of sincerity is coming on.

  

  Zoë Heller
  • Moments
  • Feels
  • Honesty

• Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour.

  

  Wilhelm Wien
  • Certain
  • Bodies
  • Colour

• A new untruth is better than an old truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Truth
  • Better
  • Truth Is

• To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Suffering

• Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Way
  • Certain
  • Principles