Tuzo Wilson Quotes

#1. Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Henry Ward Beecher

#2. Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

John Tuzo Wilson

#3. The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.

Fernando Pessoa

#4. I can feel my face growing warm, and I hope I'm not flushing in my terror. The feeling of helplessness and fear hits me hard, and once my mind validates the emotion, the physical fear of being maimed and eaten hits my skin as goose bumps in the heat.

Lindsay Anderson

#5. Obviously, this whole 'no child left behind' idea is more rhetoric than actual practice.

Hill Harper

#6. I enjoy, and always have enjoyed, disturbing scientists.

John Tuzo Wilson

#7. Dirt and then laughs. Somehow, it makes me

Vi Keeland

#8. My body size is not tied to my happy. If my happy was missing when I was larger, it will still be missing when I get smaller.

Lysa TerKeurst

#9. No-one gets a job at 16 and stays in it until 60 any more; we're connected to more people simultaneously than ever before, whether online or on our phones. We wear so many different hats within one day, one week, a lifetime.

Riz Ahmed

#10. Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory.

J. Tuzo Wilson

#11. I never use a napkin on my lap at a restaurant ... because I believe in myself.

Hannibal Buress

#12. An egg, through patience, increases value when it becomes a chick.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#13. If you are ever wondering, 'If I have thinner thighs and shinier hair will I be happier?' you just need to meet a group of models because they have the thinnest thighs and the shiniest hair and the coolest clothes and they're the most physically insecure women on the planet.

Cameron Russell