Specimen Quotes

47 Specimen quotes by 46 unique authors

ZANY, n. A popular character in old Italian plays, who imitated with ludicrous incompetence the _buffone_, or clown, and was therefore the ape of an… — Ambrose Bierce
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate,… — Bayard Taylor
It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something… — Ann Patchett
A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles… — Benjamin Disraeli
When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to… — Alan King
When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen… — John Malkovich
As much as I admire and value intellectualism and experimentation, I've discovered that unless a book has a throbbing heart as well as a sexy… — Myla Goldberg
He would never abandon her, never leave a gaping hole, and even if he died someday, he was preserved like a lab specimen from all… — Shannon Hale
I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens. — Catherynne M. Valente
The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what… — Milan Kundera
Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again. — Meg Cabot
We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never… — Mark Twain
I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say… — Nick Hornby
Maitake can achieve humongous sizes, sometimes up to 50 pounds per specimen! Massive maitake can form annually from dying dendritic tree roots for many years,… — Paul Stamets
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was… — Adam Savage
To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of… — Walter Kirn
I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I… — Unknown Author
If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be… — Sylvia Plath
So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population… — Charles Lyell
Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. — Scott Brooks
And my real enemy is not to hold the specimen sterile, but it's the lighting. The light is our real enemy. So we have to… — Lennart Nilsson
He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried… — Samuel Johnson

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