David M. Raup Quotes

It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.

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• In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Black

• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Little
  • Matters
  • Field

• Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • World
  • She
  • Moving

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Today
  • Same
  • Globalization

• There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

  

  Oren Peli
  • People
  • You
  • Say

• I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Teach
  • Go
  • University

• Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Boring
  • Elections

• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Think
  • Tree
  • Upset

• To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Men
  • Children
  • American

• To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Me
  • Pleasure
  • Intellectual

• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Failure
  • Means
  • Away

• Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.

  

  Quintilian
  • Own
  • Satire
  • Indeed

• The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Long
  • Success
  • Failure

• I'm an urban act.

  

  Maluma
  • Act
  • Urban

• Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Job
  • Truth
  • King

• I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge

• I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• DivX Plus Streaming provides secure streaming delivery of a feature rich premium digital entertainment experience to connected devices including HDTVs, Blu-ray players, smartphones, game consoles, PCs, Max and cable set-top boxes.

  

  Alfred Amoroso
  • Experience
  • Game

• I wouldn't mind taking a stab at... I'd love to take a shot at 'Doctor Strange' at some point.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Mind

• It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Sound
  • Certain
  • Focused

• It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Today
  • Bird
  • Certain