Books Quote by Charles Darwin Download Open image “I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.” — Charles Darwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Dull Found
Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read. — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age of thirty,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I love rereading Shakespeare plays and Im constantly finding bits that Ive overlooked or not understood before. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
My life has included a study of Shakespeare and to me it's very natural, but I know that it's not always accessible to other… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
I've been in plays that have been freely adapted from Shakespeare, and sometimes one's wary of those. — Jason Watkins Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly or exclusively… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as seems the… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are & will for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image