Charles Lapworth Quotes
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.Charles Lapworth
Quotes to Explore
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz -
Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Venus Williams -
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
Kate Winslet -
I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
Gaby Hoffmann -
I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
Aaron Paul -
There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
B. D. Wong
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When I'm 80 years old, I don't know what I want to be remembered for.
Lara Stone -
I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador.
Felix de Weldon -
I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
Maira Kalman -
I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
Abigail Breslin -
I moved back to Tennessee in '86 or '87. That's when I worked with the Carter Family because I really wanted to understand my roots.
Carlene Carter -
I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
Eddie Marsan
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
Action Bronson -
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
Zane Grey -
I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
Dan Fogelberg -
I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
Cy Twombly -
It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
Charles Darwin -
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelfThan that I may not disappoint myself,That in my action I may soar as highAs I can now discern with this clear eye.
Henry David Thoreau
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Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
Eric Ries -
Our political life favors the extremes of speech; the man who is gifted in the arts of abuse is bound to be a notable, if not always a great figure.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
Bernard Ebbers -
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
Bruce Sterling -
The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold along the shores of Japan returns upon itself. It is an endless fold, an endless band, the common possession of two sciences. It is geological in origin, geographical in effect. It is the wedding ring of geology and geography, uniting them at once and for ever in indissoluble union.
Charles Lapworth