Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.Elizabeth Kolbert
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
Laura Marling -
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
Zadie Smith -
Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes -
I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
Orlando Bloom -
Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
Paavo Nurmi -
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
Randy Harrison -
I've been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
Laura Bush -
I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
Patrick Wilson -
If she undervalue me,What care I how fair she be?
Walter Raleigh -
My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.
Lionel Richie
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I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.
Joel Salatin -
Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.
James Bobin -
I never intended to set out and be a singer-songwriter. I just sort of became one because I put out my own record.
Jenny Lewis -
I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge -
I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.
Christa Miller -
As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.
Patton Oswalt
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My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.
Dan Feuerriegel -
My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.
Edgar Mitchell -
I think you have to realize that most ancient warfare is really kind of hit and run, honestly. You go and you bash down the walls of some enemy 50 miles away and you take some slaves, you take some cattle, probably a bit of cash too, and then you say goodbye and go home and you probably do the same thing next year - or try to, or they do it to you.
Mary Beard -
I think it’s time to let you go, to let your heart find a home. I need to let you go.
Dean Lewis -
I'm a gun owner and strong supporter of the Second Amendment.
Evan McMullin -
Erwin estimated that the tropics were home to as many as thirty million species of arthropods.
Elizabeth Kolbert