Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

During a mass extinction, vast swathes of the tree are cut short, as if attacked by crazed, axe-wielding madmen.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Me

• Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Need

• At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Team
  • Employees
  • Teammates

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Nature
  • Know

• I never grew up seeing women that looked like me in magazines or on TV and didn't feel like I had a place in the world of fashion. I am honoured to be part of that change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Statesmen remember things selectively.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Remember

• Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Cold

• We can see God's reflection in everything he created.

  

  Ben Carson
  • God
  • Reflection

• Zaandam is particularly remarkable and there is enough here to paint for a life-time.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Life
  • Time

• In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Work
  • Art
  • Morning

• I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • People
  • Done
  • May

• The Commonwealth is one of three belts I want to win before going for a world title.

  

  Billy Joe Saunders
  • World

• In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Why
  • Training
  • Basketball

• I didn't ever want to leave Manhattan. I have an abnormal fixation.

  Charles B. Rangel

• In the past, my brain would never stop. Now I'm a father; the world no longer revolves around me. When I'm with Bronx, he's got my complete attention. He's the only thing that occupies my thoughts.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • World
  • Father
  • Past

• We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.

  

  Dean Devlin
  • Movie
  • Success
  • Independent

• All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

  

  Chief Seattle
  • Life
  • Air
  • Tree

• Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

  

  Czeslaw Milosz
  • May
  • Truth
  • Reality

• Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • War
  • Sleep
  • Fire

• During a mass extinction, vast swathes of the tree are cut short, as if attacked by crazed, axe-wielding madmen.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Tree
  • Madmen
  • Extinction