Edwin Conklin Quotes

The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.

Edwin Conklin

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• Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Slavery

• Cinema has become a global economy, totally international.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Become
  • Cinema
  • Global

• I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • People
  • Life
  • Passion

• If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Bird
  • Ifs
  • Ass

• You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

  

  Andy Grove
  • World
  • Die
  • Revolution

• There is a great responsibility on the team to perform well, because our supporters and the whole of the country are expecting us to do just that.

  

  Andriy Shevchenko
  • Great
  • Country
  • Team

• We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Requests
  • Repetitions

• In boxing, I had a lot of fear. Fear was good. But, for the first time, in the bout with Muhammad Ali, I didn't have any fear. I thought, "This is easy. This is what I've been waiting for". No fear at all. No nervousness. And I lost.

  

  George Foreman
  • Waiting
  • Easy
  • Boxing

• The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love
  • Dying
  • Regret

• In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Teaching
  • Questions
  • Scripture

• The Seattle explosion was what saved rock from becoming too pompous! A great moment in music!

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Rock
  • Explosion
  • Seattle

• I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Focus
  • Never
  • Acting

• Sound is a very unruly thing, and you have to really respect that it's going to differ every time you play.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Play
  • Sound
  • Unruly

• Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

  

  Eleanor Porter
  • Time
  • Live
  • Aunt

• Only to two or three persons in all the world are the reminiscences of a man's early youth interesting: to the parent who nursed him; to the fond wife or child mayhap afterwards who loves him; to himself always and supremely--whatever may be his actual prosperity or ill fortune, his present age, illness, difficulties, renown, or disappointments--the dawn of his life still shines brightly for him, the early griefs and delights and attachments remain with him ever faithful and dear.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Children
  • Interesting
  • Wife

• The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the Unabridged Dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing factory.

  

  Edwin Conklin
  • Dictionary
  • Probability
  • Printing