Archaeopteryx Quotes

#1. 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

#2. One of these days I'm going to get myself an avatar
so I can ride an Archaeopteryx in cyberspace --
goodbye, the meat cage.
Pray the server doesn't crash, pray
against the curse of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Lucia Perillo

#3. 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

#4. For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Isabel Allende

#5. The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.

Adrienne Rich

#6. I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Emmitt Smith

#7. Sometimes, we must learn to open our hearts and grow to love someone we think we might not be able to.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#8. An element of the burial custom which today seems particularly macabre was the possibility of being buried with a companion, a male or female follower, presumably usually a slave, killed for the burial.

Else Roesdahl

#9. It's totally thrilling to direct.

Kathryn Bigelow

#10. The loneliness that can never be filled by anyone except the one whose loss created the absence;

Robin Hobb

#11. Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

John Legend

#12. I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.

Jack Johnson

#13. As the saying goes, 'you don't fix something if it isn't broken'

Paul Merson

#14. One man with courage is a majority. ~Andrew Jackson

Bob Ravener

#15. I start each book when it's ready and never before.

Alice Walker

#16. Staring into the dragon's maw, one quickly learns wisdom.

Steven Brust

#17. Let's be honest. There's not a business anywhere that is without problems. Business is complicated and imperfect. Every business everywhere is staffed with imperfect human beings and exists by providing a product or service to other imperfect human beings.

Bob Parsons