Vestigial Quotes

#1. Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

Margaret Atwood

#2. We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.

Jerry A. Coyne

#3. He was a consummate politician
which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.

Nick Taylor

#4. The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

Don Winslow

#5. Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.

Stephen Burt

#6. Aspects of culture can also be described as vestigial, where once-adaptive cultural adaptations become maladaptive when environments change.

Anonymous

#7. Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.

P. J. O'Rourke

#8. I am by now completely convinced that my downfall in life is going to be my inability to achieve computer nirvana like a true hacker or hackette. I think this lacking is the most unmodern facet of my personality - the career equivalent of having six fingers, or a vestigial tail.

Douglas Coupland

#9. It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.

Alfred Bester

#10. I should also mention, with the vestigial pang of a once flat-chested girl, Desdemona's voluptuous figure.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#11. But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

Rob Sheffield

#12. One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...

Peg Bracken

#13. But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

Sara Teasdale

#14. Carl Yastrzemski was the best all-around player. He could run, throw and hit. He had the ability to play a number of different positions. He signed as a shortstop. He could play the outfield, of course, and third base and first, too. He was a tremendous athlete. Mickey Mantle was unbelievable, too.

Al Kaline

#15. But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

Jacky Ickx

#16. Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.

Damien Chazelle

#17. Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

Junot Diaz

#18. Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Sun Tzu