Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes

It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession.

Elisabeth Tova Bailey

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• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Acting
  • Profession
  • Singular

• Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Singing
  • Plan
  • Profession

• Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Important
  • Working
  • Hollywood

• We are a naturally hierarchical species.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Species
  • Naturally

• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Album

• Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Why
  • Sleep
  • Dog

• When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Long
  • Age

• In the sales profession, the real work begins after the sale is made.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Work
  • Real
  • Made

• We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Time
  • Art
  • True

• It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Mind
  • Earth
  • Interesting

• Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Learned
  • Conversation
  • Profession

• One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Guy
  • Action
  • Profession

• Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Humans
  • Species
  • Meals

• Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Species
  • Desired
  • Labors

• The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Dead
  • Species
  • Attractive

• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Create
  • Exist

• In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Pain
  • Wisdom
  • Species

• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Men
  • Acting
  • Profession

• I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, "I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard he was bi." Then somebody wrote, "No, I heard he was asexual." And then somebody said, "That's bullshit - he totally hit on my friend after a show."

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Facebook
  • My Friend
  • Asexual

• Minton, all fleur-de-lys and fiddly curlicues—they go for thousands on eBay.

  

  Erin Kelly
  • EBay

• There is no presence of the American columns in the city of Baghdad at all. We besieged them and we killed most of them.

  

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
  • Military
  • Columns
  • Baghdad

• It seemed far more reasonable to belong to a species that had evolved natural tooth replacement than to belong to one that had developed the dental profession.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Profession
  • Species
  • Replacement