Richard Owen Quotes

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

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• I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.

  

  Iman
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Find

• I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • World
  • Death

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• A woman should have the right to carry a gun.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Woman
  • Right
  • Gun

• Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • Together
  • Learn
  • Democrats

• I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Work
  • Succeed
  • Unbelievable

• Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• I'm talkin to you, sucka nigga you can stunt all ya wanna stuntI know you won't bust a gun, yeah punk-I'm talkin to youFuck nigga, you can hate all you wanna hateI know you a fake, make no mistake bitch, I'm talkin to you

  

  T.I.
  • Hate
  • Mistake
  • Gun

• The Jugglers store patterns, but they seldom show any sign of comprehending actual content. We’re dealing with a mindless biological archiving system, a museum without a curator.

  

  Alastair Reynolds

• Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Wolf

• Theater is very much the world I'd like to get back to, particularly in New York, both as an actor and director.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • World

• With the newspapers cheering, Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt chose a top-notch regiment of more than 1,250 men. They were first called Teddy's Texas Tarantulas and went through three or four other monikers until Roosevelt's Rough Riders stuck.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Men
  • Texas

• The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

  

  Mary Catherine Bateson
  • Family
  • Understanding

• There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Children

• After about the age of 13, I was a romance addict. Still am, though I read just about every other genre as well. The only thing I really shy away from is political thrillers.

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • Age
  • Political

• If you're an actor, you have to look spiffing. But as the director, you don't need to look so glamorous.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd

• Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Nature
  • Study
  • Fail

• People can be cruel. People hate what they don’t understand.” “But, Dad, they don’t want to understand.” “Maybe they don’t. But we have to find a way to discipline our hearts so that their cruelty doesn’t turn us into hurt animals.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Hate
  • Hurt
  • Understand

• That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Day

• Luxury brands are about elite access. In consumer goods, that's elite cost. In education, it's elite criteria for admission. Minerva is maintaining those high standards, but not artificially limiting the number of people who can meet it... This really may be redefining education.

  

  Kevin Harvey
  • People
  • May
  • High

• It's true that youth is wasted on the young and, if I had my life to live over again, I suppose I would pay more attention to my career. I would make better choices. But, in my defence, I would say that I have three wonderful children, and that's something I am very proud of.

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Attention
  • Technology

• No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Attention
  • Structure
  • Naturalist