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.
David M. Raup
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
Nate Silver
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
Ian Frazier
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
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Jacob Bronowski
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Joanne Rowling
We've lost our way if we turn our backs on millions of Americans in need.
Marcia Fudge
The thing to remember about Obama is he doesn't care if you like him or I like him or somebody else does. He literally would rather do homework with his kids than be around other politicians. Does this make him unpopular at times? Yes. Does it make him ineffective? Most certainly not.
James Carville
As a novelist, you have to pick your battles. You are tired. You have begun to experience the first ominous tinglings of carpal tunnel syndrome. You wake up in the middle of the night with both hands lying across your chest like a couple of plucked bird carcasses, dead of all sensation.
Lynn Coady
If the Bird does not sing, Kill it.
Oda Nobunaga
I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
Roy Keane
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
