Wolfgang Smith Quotes

We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are told, often enough, that the doctrine is founded upon evidence, and that indeed this evidence is henceforward above all verification, as well as being immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience; but we are left entirely in the dark on the crucial question wherein, precisely, this evidence consists.

Wolfgang Smith

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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.

T. J. Miller
- Almost
- Effective
- Satire
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

Zadie Smith
- People
- Good
- Space
My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.

M.I.A.
- Up
- Fashion
- Car
In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.

Patrick Whitesell
- Good
- Fire
- Creative
I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.

Dan Colen
- World
- Trying
- High
Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

Ian Hislop
- People
- Up
- World