#adding

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#adding #american #american experience #broader #complexity

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #challenged #changes #darwinian #explained

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#blend #content #creole #easily #encourage

I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#ahead #also #alter #be prepared #dishes

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. ↗

— Mary Pickford

#adding #like #lipstick #milo #putting

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#adding #any #conscience #marvelous #nobody

My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business. ↗

— John Searle

#business #car #line #machine #nothing

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing. ↗