Alan Feduccia Quotes

#1. I tend to play nurses and waitresses and policewomen.

Allison Tolman

#2. Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

Ren Ng

#3. Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

Alan Feduccia

#4. People care about the unutterable awe of American heroes stabbing into the heavens on columns of fire.

Margaret Lazarus Dean

#5. The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite.

Toni Sorenson

#6. Archaeopteryx probably cannot tell us much about the early origins of feathers and flight in true protobirds because Archaeopteryx was, in the modern sense, a bird.

Alan Feduccia

#7. Bettie Page was the first person to do bondage as fashion, because for her it really was all about dressing up.

Mary Harron

#8. Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.

Alan Feduccia

#9. I wouldn't call it a retail store. It's a place where culture and commerce intersect. It's more like the Silk Road-a sense of exploration mixed with the exchange of things and ideas.

Ron Pompei

#10. On the contrary, there is a considerable body of evidence that these fossil traces, known as 'dino-fuzz', have nothing to do with bird feathers ... I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.

Alan Feduccia

#11. My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'

Adam McKay