When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
Response is what we have trained ourselves to be; it is a reflection of our manhood, character, ideals. We cannot always control… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Journalists often ask me when I go to the field, 'What do you expect to find?' And my answer always is, 'The… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
As I descend the stairs, I can’t help brushing my fingers along the unblemished white marble walls. So cold and beautiful. Even… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you act, it's better not to fake the emotion. It's better to find the emotion within yourself and your experiences, and… — Jackie Earle Haley Copy Share Image
WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The… — James Salter Copy Share Image
He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Everything - a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being - is ultimately unknowable. This is because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You have to get rid of borders, limits, and classifications; then light comes. We see everything on the screen of our ideas.… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Whoever the kid had been, whoever had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism?… — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Piper went a little crazy. She cried out with relief and dove straight into the water. What was she thinking? She didn't… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried,… — Lois Duncan Copy Share Image
The question 'Why white kids love hip-hop?' forces us immediately to deal with the historical weight of race in America. On the… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live. Most have not delved six feet beneath the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth..." Whatever our speculations may be in regard to a "beginning," and when… — Elisha Gray Copy Share Image
Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The surface of the earth is not simply a stage on which the thousands of present and past inhabitants played their parts… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
It hadn't really percolated through my brain that I was going to see real, live TV from the surface of the Moon,… — David Weber Copy Share Image
Balls should be good for at least six sets, and for more for the average player. But if the rallies are long,… — Helen Wills Moody Copy Share Image
When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Anyone would think he was miserable to be here, but the truth is, he always looks this way. Only Cobar and I… — Lacey Carter Andersen Copy Share Image
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
The media has been very bad about informing us about what is going on. They focus on surface things. They do not… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, wants to make you forget the name of the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I… — Debbie Harry Copy Share Image
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
In my experience, if you steer clear of dogma and muster up more love than you thought you had to give, then… — Danielle LaPorte Copy Share Image
So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image