Multipronged Quotes

#1. In a touch Buckland would have appreciated, this multipronged dispersal from Africa is sometimes called the Weak Garden of Eden theory. But this tale is actually better than the biblical version; we didn't lose Eden but learned to make other Edens across the world.

Sam Kean

#2. Google has been amazing at acqui-hiring, buying small companies for the engineers. I think in the competitive market of Silicon Valley, it's really a good way to do it. Big acquisitions often don't work out.

Ross Levinsohn

#3. Philanthropy requires thought, action, and passion.

Robert L. Payton

#4. Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.

Walter Darby Bannard

#5. Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

Eleanor Smeal

#6. I don't find offensive that I'm being labelled a babe by blokes. I'm absolutely flattered.

Kirsty Gallacher

#7. Restaurants get you in with food to sell you liquor; religions get you in with belief to sell you rules.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. I actually got an initial sense of how big 'Outlander' was going to be on Twitter. We're all on there to help promote the show and also interact with the fans.

Sam Heughan

#9. I like to hear the sound of form, and I like to hear the sound of it breaking.

Frederick Seidel

#10. He looks like he needs worming.

Darrell Royal

#11. Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

Patrick F. McManus

#12. When I had my son, it was the worst day and the best day of my life because I realized that I will never love someone so much, but I will never be able to keep him from the lessons that he's meant to learn, in this lifetime.

Maria Bello

#13. A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.

Adrian Tomine

#14. Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle to talk of plans for a stable peace.

Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.