Charles Lapworth Quotes

Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

Charles Lapworth

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• I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Fun
  • Wish
  • Internet

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Poetry
  • Easy
  • Nothing

• Endangered species are our friends.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Friends
  • Species
  • Endangered

• It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Trying
  • Words
  • Week

• ESSAY - A loose sally of the mind; an irregular indigested piece; not a regular and orderly composition.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Mind

• I still say to myself when I am depressed and find myself forced to listen to pompous and tiresome people 'Well, I have done one thing you could never have done, and that is to have collaborated with Littlewood and Ramanujan on something like equal terms.'

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • People
  • Done

• Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

  

  Brandon Jennings
  • Focus

• 'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

  

  Brigitte Boisselier

• I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.

  

  Andrew Buchan
  • People
  • Up
  • Reading

• I understand the power of the Internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

  

  Ksenia Solo
  • Different
  • Power

• I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

  

  David Friedman
  • Children

• There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Period

• Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • People

• I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It's just a great thing.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• I always have high expectations for me.

  

  Nelson Cruz
  • High

• In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.

  

  Cristina Saralegui
  • Kids
  • House
  • Grandchildren

• Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

  

  Jamie Farr
  • Comedy

• I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

  

  Alan Alda
  • Gun
  • Carry
  • Grant

• I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Clear

• Astronomy concerns itself with the whole of the visible universe, of which our earth forms but a relatively insignificant part; while Geology deals with that earth regarded as an individual. Astronomy is the oldest of the sciences, while Geology is one of the newest. But the two sciences have this in common, that to both are granted a magnificence of outlook, and an immensity of grasp denied to all the rest.

  

  Charles Lapworth