#ang

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

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them. ↗

— Charles Gounod

#catch #flight #had #hand #i

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#became #closest #critical #i #judgments

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#actually #afar #astounded #brain #constantly

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#buck #change #change the world #companies #fast

I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.' ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#anymore #because #classes #feel #glad

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given. ↗

— Anthony Hamilton

#best #change #claiming #doing #game

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#complain #deep #developed #i #language

You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#crash #dancer #just #movie #take

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#everything #fact #mentally #outer #outer world