Bill Mollison Quotes

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

Bill Mollison

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• Being in the public eye, you can't really avoid a lot of questions. A lot of questions are being thrown at you, whether it's about your personal life or your personal beliefs, and I'm happy to answer them all.

  

  Yuna
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Eye

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Book

• I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Love
  • Art
  • Philosophy

• If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • America
  • Control

• It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Feel
  • Easy

• I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Win
  • Fight
  • Tough

• Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Law
  • Going

• When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Up
  • Play
  • Place

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • True
  • Imagination
  • Vision

• I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Audience

• All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • God
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Morning

• Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Time
  • Mind

• Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• Nothing helps you sleep at night so much as being absolutely certain that you're right, and everyone else is evil.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Night
  • Evil
  • Sleep

• He is immensely fat, and so Well suits the occupation: In point of fact, if you must know, We used to call him years ago, THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION!

  

  Lewis Carroll

• When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • She

• I wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.

  

  Jane Lynch

• The biggest misconception people have is that quality is all that matters. The truth is that quality helps, but there's a ton of high-quality things that don't go anywhere.

  

  Jonah Peretti
  • People
  • Truth
  • High

• The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Humanity

• The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Earth
  • Damage
  • Agriculture