Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.Alfred Russel Wallace
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Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.
Daley Thompson -
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
Yves Chauvin -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
Vikas Swarup -
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
W. H. Davies -
Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
Lady Gaga
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
Fabiola Gianotti -
People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
Samuel Butler -
My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
Vicki Lawrence -
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid -
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
Zadie Smith
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso -
I always had a fascination with twins.
Francine Pascal -
Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
Harold Perrineau -
Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that.
Ralph Boston -
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
Dana Goodyear
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I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.
Norman Granz -
My stand-up has always been very character-based. I'm not really the kind of person that's like, 'Hey, here's what's on my mind! Tip your waitress!' I would create the jokes based on the character I was playing. It was always a performance-based thing for me.
Mary Lynn Rajskub -
Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind!
Mary Wollstonecraft -
There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
C. S. Lewis -
Policing is one of those jobs that will always revolve around a meatspace hub, if only because you can’t build a cellblock in cyberspace.
Charles Stross -
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
Alfred Russel Wallace