Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Diamond

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

Bo Sanchez

Education without execution is extinction

Asa Gray

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Brian Perkins

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Joel Sternfeld

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

Stephen Jay Gould

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

Greg Gianforte

The Oracles and SAPs of the world are truly dinosaurs. Their extinction is imminent.

Mohammed Omar

This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground.

Frances Beinecke

Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

C. S. Lewis

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Aaron Sorkin

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Charles Dickens

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

James Comey

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.

Patrick Chinamasa

The faces sitting in front of you are hungry faces,

Thelma Houston

It's great, the number of people that I'm reaching through the Internet - I've done some wonderful interviews - but I miss touching the bodies. I miss shaking hands, looking into people's faces and saying, 'Hello, how are you doing? Thank you for playing my music.'

DJ Qualls

My face is distinct. It's hard to confuse me with anyone else.

Dave Chappelle

What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!

David Sedaris

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

China Mieville

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Brandon Sanderson

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Tansy Rayner Roberts

One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

Mark Rylance

Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Debra Messing

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

Elizabeth Moon

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Meghan Ory

I'm a huge 'Harry Potter' fan. When you're acting, it's a fantasy already, maybe it's the costumes, I love it. It's so fun.

Carole Bouquet

I was lucky enough to be able to do comedies, dramas, completely different parts. At the beginning, when you start you have a fantasy that you could be somebody else. Which is absurd. That's part of being an actor. It's your voice, it's the way you move, it's your body, even if you transform it, you play with it.