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

• And if Sarah Palin whose Web site put and today scrubbed bull's-eyes targets on 20 Representatives, including Gabby Giffords, does not repudiate her own part - however tangential - in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American politics, she must be dismissed from politics. She must be repudiated by the members of her own party. And if they fail to do so, each one of them must be judged to have silently defended this tactic that today proved so awfully foretelling. And they must in turn be dismissed by the responsible members of their own party.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • She
  • American
  • Today

• Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Help
  • Drug

• The Americans expect great things of me ... If the small Czech nation can have such musicians, they say, why could not they, too, when their country and people is so immense.

  

  Antonin Dvorak
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• Speech is the organ of this present world. Silence is the mystery of the world to come.

  

  Isaac of Nineveh
  • World
  • Silence
  • Speech

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

  

  Richard Owen
  • Attention
  • Structure
  • Naturalist