Richard Owen Quotes

Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

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• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Summer
  • Favorite
  • Lake

• I do suspect that this world is hell.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • World
  • Hell
  • Suspect

• When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Growing
  • Value

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Attitude
  • Look

• At 86, I can easily look back to the last eight decades. Though memory often fails me now, so many images of the past are still clearly polished, and I can yet recall not just an abiding sense of place, but the keen smells, the sensory responses to the events of that past.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Place
  • Sense
  • Memory

• The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the sound and felt it really didn't need more instruments, so I didn't use them.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Happy
  • Kind
  • Sound

• The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Problem
  • Nation
  • Admit

• Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • Long
  • Rest

• I'm married to a white man, and then my daughter came out looking like the whitest white child with blonde hair and blue eyes. And I'm like, 'Omigosh, now what am I going to do?' She has my mom's features and is lighter than my husband. And my boy is browner than I am. Brown eyes and really tan.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Mom

• You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was 'the scourge of God.'

  

  Edward Everett
  • God
  • Power
  • Rest

• I am not surprised that men are not thankful to me; but I wonder that they are not grateful to God for the good which he has made me the instrument of conveying to my fellow-creatures.

  

  Edward Jenner
  • Good
  • God
  • Men

• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  

  Martha Reeves
  • Up
  • School
  • Job

• Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Long

• I've always loved the song 'It Might as Well Be Spring'.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Song
  • Spring

• I really like kids.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Kids

• A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Live
  • Home

• 'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.

  

  Jamie Clayton
  • Good
  • Different

• I am the luckiest guy I know.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Guy

• What's more difficult than knowing there's an effective treatment for your children, but you can't afford to offer it to them because it's not covered by insurance?

  

  Elizabeth Emken
  • Children
  • Insurance

• You, Socrates, began by saying that virtue can't be taught, and now you are insisting on the opposite, trying to show that all things are knowledge, justice, soundness of mind, even courage, from which it would follow that virtue most certainly can be taught.

  

  Protagoras
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Knowledge

• Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Different
  • Science
  • Animal