The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In the end, history, especially British history with its succession of thrilling illuminations, should be, as all her most accomplished narrators have… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes. — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To walk, we have to lean forward, lose our balance and begin to fall. We let go constantly of the previous stability,… — Robin Skynner Copy Share Image
There's very little in the substance of [THE LADY IN THE VAN] which is not fact though some adjustments have had to… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Unlike many hour-long scripted American dramas, 'Succession' has very few standing sets. — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if… — Gerald Vann Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between. — Darrell Royal Copy Share Image
My being consists of matter and form, that is, of soul and body; annihilation will reach neither of them, for they were… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick… — Henry L. Stimson Copy Share Image
Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution? — George Will Copy Share Image
In enabling mechanism to combine together general symbols in successions of unlimited variety and extent, a uniting link is established between the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
