Top 12 Specimen Collection Quotes
#1. The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
Adam Savage
#2. There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world - any place at all.
Daniel Quinn
#4. Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Virginia Woolf
#5. The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance ... has helped to determine your path through life.
Rowan Atkinson
#6. It is good to know what you are doing. The man with his pickled fish has set down one truth and has recorded in his experience many lies. The fish is not that color, that texture, that dead, nor does he smell that way.
John Steinbeck
#7. 'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
Baltasar Kormakur
#8. You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.
Robert Gottlieb
#9. Did Thomas the boring slinthead actually make a joke?
James Dashner
#10. But sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn't come with complications.
Larissa Ione
#11. A bead of cold sweat dangled on my fingertip before dripping onto the doorbell. What if I got electrocuted from my wet fingers? I would die literally inches from my first high school party. And everyone would be like, oh, poor thing was so nervous, what a tragedy. Death by sweat.
Lindsey Leavitt
#12. There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.
Bob Phillips
