Louis Leakey Quotes

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

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• What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Good
  • True
  • Singing

• The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Perfect
  • Animals
  • Vanity

• Occasionally, especially on video games and with a lot of the fighting stuff, to get what you feel is the proper sound, you have to imitate what you're doing, and occasionally I've gotten carried away and kicked over mic stands or punched things.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Fighting
  • Doing
  • Video Games

• Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Doing
  • Lord
  • Rings

• I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Life
  • Different
  • Future

• Hip-hop was started on groups.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Hip Hop
  • Groups
  • Started

• As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Story
  • Voice
  • Find

• China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Energy
  • Easy
  • Economy

• I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Love
  • Content
  • Prefer

• The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Stop
  • Brain
  • Worry

• If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Family
  • Want
  • Poetry

• I wanted to play baseball!

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Play
  • Baseball
  • Wanted

• If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• Man has been adjudged a social animal.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Social

• There can be a new tomorrow There can be a brighter day There can be a new tomorrow Love will find a way

  

  Jackie DeShannon

• Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Together
  • Success
  • Imagination

• It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

  

  Karl Popper
  • People

• More details just arrived. These details about the same as previously: President Kennedy shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas; Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy, she called 'Oh, no!'; the motorcade sped on. United Press says that the wounds for President Kennedy perhaps could be fatal.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • She
  • Today

• One who has drunk at the fountain of spiritual happiness says good-by of his own accord to the satisfactions that come from a higher professional status … What is the greatest sign of success for a teacher thus transformed? It is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'

  

  Maria Montessori
  • Good
  • Children
  • Success

• I've put myself in the best possible positions through my daily training and my recovery processes and my offseason regimen and preparation. I break down when I have these freak injuries happen, when the hard work is basically thrown out.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Work
  • Training
  • Daily

• From some, the light was scarcely more than a gloom:From some, a dazzling desire.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Light
  • Desire

• I come from film, where I only play a character for three months at a time, and then it's done, so it's important for me to be able to put on other hats and make sure that all of the tools in my toolbox that don't apply to Olivia Pope are still in shape.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Time
  • Important
  • Done

• As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

  

  Chris Crutcher
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Universe

• At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

  

  Louis Leakey