Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

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• You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Attention
  • Marketing
  • Sell

• Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn't mean anything else.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • You
  • Language
  • Try

• A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Death
  • King
  • Feared

• I don't think it's that serious. If I feel good tomorrow and I feel like I'm not going to jeopardize missing games or hurt the team, I'll play. Otherwise, I'll sit down.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Game
  • Team

• Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.

  

  Art Blakey
  • Music
  • Moving
  • River

• Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Life
  • Country
  • Singer

• We should see schools as safe arenas for experimenting with life, for discovering our talents... for taking responsibity for tasks and others people, for learning how to learn... and for exploring our beliefs about life and society.

  

  Charles Handy
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Design
  • Happens
  • Breathe

• He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Team
  • Sacrifices
  • Adjustments

• It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

  

  Aristotle
  • Thought
  • Grateful
  • Powers

• I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

  

  Rick Pitino
  • Ignore
  • Jealous
  • Paranoid

• When men are so busy making money that they have no time for anything else, then the day is not far off when they will have no money for anything else.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Men
  • Money
  • Busy

• I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle of the night. But sometimes I'll see things, or experience things, that make me go, "Huh, maybe that's a bit."

  

  Brian Regan
  • Night
  • Sometimes
  • Coffee

• It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long. That's what I find really hard. And didn't really consider it. It was eating and drinking and taking drugs and having sex. It was just part of life.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Long

• I am for the animals, I couldn't care less about your need to eat animals, wear them, shoot them or exploit them. Too bad if you consider it suffering to let all that self-centered and traditional bullshit stop you from having the will to help the animals.

  

  Rikki Rockett Poison
  • Help
  • Animals
  • Consider

• It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

  

  Rick Derringer
  • Soul
  • Relationship
  • Consider

• Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able to tell that something extraordinary happened at the moment in time that counts for us as today. This is the case even though a hundred million years from now, all that we consider to be the great works of man—the sculptures and the libraries, the monuments and the museums, the cities and the factories—will be compressed into a layer of sediment not much thicker than a cigarette paper.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
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