Top 28 Lyall Watson Quotes
#1. A million dollars in the presidential election is a spit in the ocean. It's not a lot of money.
Kenneth Langone
#2. Before sight and sound hijacked our attention, we shared with all life a sort of common sense, a chemical sense that depended on direct contact with matter in the water or the air.
Lyall Watson
#3. And that's the thing about marriage. It can look perfect to people from the outside but be utterly imperfect on the inside. The reverse is true as well. No one knows what goes on in a marriage except for the two people living in it.
Elin Hilderbrand
#4. All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
Lyall Watson
#5. Mentally, you must believe it before you physically start it, or else you will never reach prosperity.
Greg Plitt
#6. Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.
Lyall Watson
#7. A war must be avoided at all costs. Russia is against any type of use of external force.
Vladimir Yakunin
#8. Both dance and dream are brought into being by the consciousness of a moment. They can never be repeated or successfully imitated. But you can dance and dream again. You must, if life is to continue.
Lyall Watson
#9. I have had close relationships with three species of wild pigs, each a chance encounter on a different continent, and all continue to enrich my life in surprising ways.
Lyall Watson
#10. If you simply walk on the beach as we are doing, you have no special color. But if you travel with a purpose, it is different. When you go somewhere important or you return home from a long journey, you build a shape around you and it reaches out ahead to touch your destination.
Lyall Watson
#11. I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.
Perez Hilton
#12. Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them often tend to be blurred, and the best that we can manage, by way of description from the outside, is to say that the senses of fishes appear to dominate one at a time.
Lyall Watson
#13. We share our planet quite naturally with a permanent aeroplankton; a buoyant ecology too soft to hear, too small to see, but heavy with mood and meaning. Imagine being aware of all these airy inclusions - and you can begin to understand how it might feel to be able to smell really well.
Lyall Watson
#14. Of course it was Hamlet - The uncle kills the father, and the son has to avenge his father's death. So then we decided it was going to be Hamlet with lions." In that pivotal moment, the film got the green light.
Adam M. Grant
#15. We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility ... You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.
Lyall Watson
#17. I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he's great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.
Gail Collins
#18. I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.
Lyall Watson
#19. Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
Lyall Watson
#20. Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.
Lyall Watson
#21. The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.
Lyall Watson
#22. There is so much ignorant prejudice against bees in a dining-room.
Patrick O'Brian
#23. Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.
Lyall Watson
#24. If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Lyall Watson
#25. If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
Lyall Watson
#26. Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.
Lyall Watson
#27. It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.
Lyall Watson
#28. Oh, he was perfect. An orgasm - just for her - and a compliment. She would bottle him and sell him and make her fortune.
Ruthie Knox
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