Paleobiological Quotes

#1. My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed ... It is not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of paleobiological facts ... The idea of an evolution rests on pure belief.

Nils Heribert-Nilsson

#2. Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael Jackson had to come further and go deeper into the pit of possibility of American democracy and of cultural expression.

Michael Eric Dyson

#3. The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

John Gunther

#4. First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

Ninette De Valois

#5. Both of my parents were born into poor families on the island of Cuba. They came to America because it was the only place where people like them could have a chance.

Marco Rubio

#6. You can't hit what you can't see.

Walter Johnson

#7. Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

Richard Madden

#8. All this time I thought you were reading to escape the world, but now I know, you didn't read to escape it, you read to discover it.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#9. self respect. self reliance. self control.

John Dos Passos

#10. I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from ... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

Warren Buffett

#11. It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

Sybille Bedford