Phylogenesis Quotes

#1. This passage, in fact, makes strikingly clear that both at the level of ontogenesis (the development of the child) and phylogenesis (the development of the human species) mimesis, for Nietzsche, precedes language and allows communication to take place.

Nidesh Lawtoo

#2. Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#3. I hate high expectations because they're hard to beat.

Neal H. Moritz

#4. Come back with me, Aria. Be with me.

Veronica Rossi

#5. Santa Claus is a lie but if you think that's bad, check out what 'fuck' really means.

Andrew Smith

#6. When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

Chris Hardwick

#7. When we have completed all the journeys and adventures through our variety of lives we are supposed to return to the creator with our accumulation of knowledge. It is then absorbed. In this way we are considered cells in the body of God.

Dolores Cannon

#8. I try to put in every one of my movies some sort of message. I don't want to overdo it, because I don't want people to get annoyed by it, but it's good to have a message.

Roland Emmerich

#9. But every time I near sleep, I'm scared shitless. Because the memories are coming faster now, pouring through me, as if I've broken the handle on the faucet. They are coming, no matter how much is hurts. And all I can do is hold my breath and try not to drown.

Meg Haston

#10. The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

Elvis Costello

#11. The choices humans make are like a ripple in a pond. They carry from one to another, bouncing, dancing. Colliding. And still they go on. But you. The choices you make are like a tsunami in the ocean.

T.J. Klune

#12. From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Tom Stoppard

#13. Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. We are living through deeply anxious days and if we are to relieve our own anxiety we must diagnose its cause

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. Well I loved the idea of playing a girl who dresses up like a dude ...

Amanda Bynes