Quotes About Continental Drift

#1. Black_Venus: Here it goes:
Curious mosaic
Continental drift
Parabolic metaphor
Elemental rift
Time and transposition
Conscious intermission
Assertion?
Desertion
Black_Venus: That's all I have so far. You finish it.
Me: How about Spanish Inquisition.

Julie Anne Peters

#2. That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when it was proposed by Wegener. Nevertheless, we see that Wegener was right, and those who objected on the grounds of unavailable mechanism were wrong.

Carl Sagan

#3. I'm working on a movie called 'Virgin Mary' with Abigail Breslin. I'm also in 'Ice Age 4: Continental Drift.' And I have a television movie coming on Nickelodeon that I worked on with Nick Cannon. I acted in it, but I am more excited about being a producer!

Keke Palmer

#4. I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.'

Jason Fuchs

#5. A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty ... Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

David M. Raup

#6. Never rush anyone who's personally witnessed continental drift.

Seanan McGuire

#7. I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

Robert Ballard

#8. We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

Jerry A. Coyne

#9. Don't cheer me, just hear me
Out 'cause I got the clout-shout (Ho!)
Before I turn the party out

Rob Base

#10. My object when writing prose is to write as clearly as possible. I think I know what I'm saying in prose, and I want others to understand it and to be able to restate it.

Pattiann Rogers

#11. A life for a life. All debts have to be repaid.

Alex London

#12. All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.

Russell Banks

#13. If there is a change, it is usually for the lesser rather than the greater; many people seem to lose God along life's way.

Yann Martel

#14. I have it on good authority- well, I have it on distinctly disreputable but probably truthful authority- that his enterprises are perfectly well known to the local new police.

M.J. Carter

#15. only three ingredients are needed to be a successful fundraiser: Hard work, hard work, and hard work.

Jerold Panas

#16. Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

John Calvin

#17. It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.

Mark Zuckerberg

#18. I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

Tammara Webber

#19. I have to work hard for my family. They don't have a lot.

Jose Reyes

#20. If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

Finley Peter Dunne

#21. But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.

Lauren Kate

#22. I confess my belief in the common man ... The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it ... The man who is in the melee knows what blows are being struck and what blood is being drawn.

Woodrow Wilson

#23. I suspect the fault ... is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide.

James Agee

#24. You know you're like, my hero, right?

Stuart Stutzman