Doe Quote by Richard Brautigan Download Open image “Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written.” — Richard Brautigan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Fossils Language Written
“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When out fossil hunting, it is very easy to forget that rather than telling you how the creatures lived, the remains you find indicate… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence. There are no fossils… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We don't need fossils - the case for evolution is watertight without them; so it is paradoxical to use gaps in the fossil record… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from ancestral forms to the descendants. But this… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
“Fossils do not require long ages to form. In fact, they must form quickly, otherwise the organism’s softer tissues and even bones suffer decay… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The river loved to tell everybody (everybody being the sky, the wind, the few trees that grew around there, birds, deer and even the… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would” — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“The Beautiful Poem" I go to bed in Los Angeles thinking about you. Pissing a few moments ago I looked down at my penis… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Alas, Measured Perfectly" Saturday, August 25, 1888. 5:20 P.M. is the name of a photograph of two old women in a front yard, beside… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Congratulations," I said. "It's so wonderful to write a book." "I walked all the way here," she said. "I started at midnight. I would… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“My Name “I guess you are kind of curious as to who I am, but I am one of those who do not have… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“I feel horrible. She doesn't love me and I wander around the house like a sewing machine that's just finished sewing a turd to… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
