Richard Owen Quotes

The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

Richard Owen

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• For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Play
  • Religious
  • Now

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Today
  • Culture
  • Hate

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred on almost every hour drama, and I'm always the guy they think is the bad guy but then they find out is not.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Think

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Political
  • Decisions

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Star
  • Film
  • Inspiration

• I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Parents
  • Blessed
  • Reflect

• Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Passion

• Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Environment

• Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Wisdom
  • Never
  • Late

• The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Remember
  • Past
  • Look

• If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

  

  Gary Ross
  • World
  • Learning
  • View

• The bourgeoisie loves so-called 'positive' types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Positive

• When I am working on a movie, all I want to talk about is the movie. All I want to be with are the movie people. It's like a clan. If I'm asked to people's houses for dinner, I hate to go, because they'll talk about other things.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Movie
  • Hate

• Ataturk sent several Turkish staff officers to Afghanistan, helped them build their own army.

  

  Bulent Ecevit
  • Army

• He has not lived in vain who learns to be unruffled by loss, by gain, by, joy, by pain.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Pain
  • Joy

• We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

  

  Emanuel Celler
  • Character
  • High
  • Political

• When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.

  

  Betty Dodson
  • People
  • Up
  • Cutting

• The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Character
  • Science
  • Existence