Georges Cuvier Quotes

The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.

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• The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Works
  • Known
  • Locks

• I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Husband

• To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Brother

• I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Works
  • Ridiculous
  • Edge

• My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Way
  • Works

• I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

  

  Carl Honore
  • God
  • Think
  • Works

• The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Reality
  • Works
  • Curator

• I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Know
  • Hard

• Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Person

• I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Good
  • Quality
  • Works

• I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Writing
  • Always
  • Pages

• When we are abandoned to God, He works through us all the time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • God
  • Works

• but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Drug
  • Works
  • Effects

• Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • Way
  • Design
  • Works

• I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Create
  • Works
  • Limitations

• To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Ideas
  • Drawing
  • Pages

• The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Way
  • Attention

• The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Passion
  • Stuff
  • Works

• Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Sales
  • Works
  • Crap

• When slow songs do play, people joke that you should be able to fit "the standard works" between you and your partner. The standard works is a Mormon term referring to all of the religious books we study. So when you're slow dancing, the Old Testament, New Testament, The Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price should be able to fit in the space between you and your dance partner -- or you're dancing too close.

  

  Elna Baker
  • Study
  • Songs
  • Dancing

• I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.

  

  Sutton Foster
  • Show
  • Inside
  • Works

• I think that glamour is about confidence and really owning the look.

  

  Monique Lhuillier
  • Thinking
  • Confidence
  • Glamour

• The works which this man leaves behind him occupy a few pages only; their importance is not greatly superior to their extent.

  

  Georges Cuvier
  • Works
  • Pages
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