Louis Leakey Quotes

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

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• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Band
  • Never
  • Supportive

• I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Love
  • Strong
  • Own

• My first Olympics was Munich in 1972. I am better now than I was then, in knowledge and experience. The age of top riders generally tends to be older than in other sports because it takes a lot of time to be consistent.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Age

• I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Me
  • Present

• I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Interesting
  • Doing
  • Author

• No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Live
  • Love
  • Discrimination

• The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.

  

  Cal Hubbard
  • Know
  • Me
  • Play

• It's a huge headache - the more money you have, the more hassles. I find money very uncomfortable.

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Money
  • Find
  • Uncomfortable

• There was a time when rival teams used a shift against me. They would put the second baseman on the shortstop's side of the bag, move the shortstop into the hole to his right, and have the third baseman hug the foul line. The idea was to build an infield wall against a known right-handed pull hitter.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Time
  • Me
  • Wall

• Facebook is my life.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Facebook

• Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Political
  • Events

• I would be a drudge now, among the tents, and I would kneel before the warriors, and run from them when they shouted at me. I would be a woman, as women were reckoned in this place, a half-souled, witless animal, created to bear and pleasure men: an afterthought of the god.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • World

• I must plunge into the water of doubt again and again.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Water
  • Doubt

• The trade of insurance gives great security to the fortunes of private people, and by dividing among a great many that loss which would ruin an individual, makes it fall light and easy upon the whole society.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Society

• I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Beautiful

• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet and exercise and stick to it - and be able to do it at your own pace.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Exercise

• To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Justice
  • Person
  • Corporation

• What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.

  

  Epictetus
  • God
  • Desert
  • Creature

• I just find that I enjoy the music that feels like there's a journey to the top of this mountain, then you're at the top of the mountain finally with this magical feeling, and you're stoked because you made it, and you're up there, but there's a little bit of sadness to think of all that you lost along the way to get there. I guess I relate and enjoy the path and the struggle very much. Maybe it's the competitive spirit in me.

  

  Aaron Richard Bruno Awolnation
  • Thinking
  • Struggle
  • Feelings

• Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Media
  • Restrictions
  • Pillars

• I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

  

  Louis Leakey