Brian Boyd Quotes

I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are species and whole lineages that go extinct - but basically novels and plays, and so on, will continue to exist. Jokes, as the lowest-cost form of narrative, will certainly continue to exist. They're a bit like microbes in the biological world. They're low-cost and they're everywhere. They're the most successful form of life, even though they're not the ones we think about most.

Brian Boyd

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• I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

  

  Faith Hill
  • God
  • Kids
  • Me

• Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Character
  • Today
  • Effort

• I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Heart

• September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Best
  • Stand

• Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable Gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Same
  • More
  • Guarantee

• For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Different
  • Past

• For all of us, the collective bargaining agreement is a big deal. We've seen everything in this league - strikes, free agency and salary caps. For some teams in the league, it's going to be tougher. We'll be one of the teams that it will be tough on.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Free
  • Deal
  • League

• It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Purpose

• I am not going to come back and play IPL. Have a few plans and may play a few matches here and there.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • May
  • Play
  • Here And There

• Ya know, Hitler was a great leader, too.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Great
  • Knows
  • Leader

• Originally, I think, I wanted to be an actor. But I got into broadcasting by accident, if you will, because I needed money to pay for my college education. I applied for a summer announcing job at a couple of radio stations.

  

  Alex Trebek
  • Money
  • Job
  • Education

• I'm a foodie, I'm always eating, I'm eating right now ...sometimes I get fat around the waist, but I don't care.

  

  Marion Hall

• It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Time
  • Character
  • Friend

• We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored her. We know our mistresses are no better than many other women, nor no prettier, nor no wiser, nor no wittier. 'Tis not for these reasons we love a woman, or for any special quality or charm I know of; we might as well demand that a lady should be the tallest woman in the world, like the Shropshire giantess, as that she should be a paragon in any other character, before we began to love her.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Women
  • Love

• I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Age

• Spare no expense on the stuff that matters.

  

  Andrew Mayne
  • Stuff
  • Expense
  • Spare

• I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • I Love
  • Jokes
  • Good Song

• I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

  

  Boy George Culture Club
  • World
  • Trying
  • Want

• William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance and superstition'.

  

  Adrian Desmond
  • Science
  • Religion
  • Ignorance

• I think like almost everything in evolution, the old forms persist. New forms come along - not always, of course; there are species and whole lineages that go extinct - but basically novels and plays, and so on, will continue to exist. Jokes, as the lowest-cost form of narrative, will certainly continue to exist. They're a bit like microbes in the biological world. They're low-cost and they're everywhere. They're the most successful form of life, even though they're not the ones we think about most.

  

  Brian Boyd
  • Evolution
  • Jokes
  • Forms