George Julius Poulett Scrope Quotes
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is-Time!-Time!-Time!
George Julius Poulett Scrope
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
Jack Kemp
Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
Gary Owen
Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
Katee Sackhoff
I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.
Jack McCollough
When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
Karen Black
I think there's a part of my brain where food, language, and memory all intersect, and it's really powerful. I think I'm not alone in this.
Kate Christensen
When we associate with others we really associate with ourselves. We like or dislike in others whatever we like or dislike in ourselves.
Vernon Howard
There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
Hans Blix
It is a question of personal appeal and conviction, rather than any argument. The cards I fancy are sympathy, understanding of his hopes, suspicions and disappointments, but above all, striving to convey to him, through what one says, a real echo of the sincerity that pervaded your doings in London.
Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Né spegner può, per starne l'acqua, il fuoco,Né può stato mutar, per mutar loco.
Ludovico Ariosto
Let me tell you 'bout a girl I know I met her walkin' down a uptown street She's so fine you know I wished she was mine I get shook up every time we meet
Chuck Berry
Especially working with Adam Brody, he's just so funny in every day life. Working with him is a lot of fun. We play pranks on each other.
Rachel Bilson
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.
U.G. Krishnamurti
Most people think a song is a song - three minutes, and you're done. I don't think this way. Songs are my wings. They're what I use to fly. It's very important for me to put everything in the right place.
Benjamin Clementine
Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
J. Tillman
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world.
Oscar Wilde
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to the ear of the student of Nature seems echoed from every part of her works, is-Time!-Time!-Time!
George Julius Poulett Scrope
