#dinosaur

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#admit #afraid #among #baseball #being

Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled. ↗

— Steve Martin

#different #dinosaurs #evolutionary #gambled #humans

You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#euphemism #humour #political-correctness #humour

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#dinosaurs #either #every #fascinated #i

I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety. ↗

— John McEnroe

#book #dinosaur #even #example #for example

Nature was quick to pass the sponge of her deluges over these awkward sketches (dinosaurs), these first nightmares of Life. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#nature #life

I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a film like Jurassic Park and see dinosaurs reawakened more graphically than any museum could emulate, maybe a museum should be the place to have an encounter with the bony truth. Maybe some children have overdosed on simulations on their computers at home and just want to see something solid--a fact of life. ↗

— Richard Fortey

#museums #natural-history #life

Just stay still, if you stay still it can't find you. That's sharks, you idiot. Sharks and dinosaurs. This isn't Jurassic Park. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#humor #internal-thoughts #monsters-in-the-dark #sharks #humor

The dinosaurs died so that chat rooms may flourish ↗

— Tom Robbins

#dinosaurs #fossil-fuels #home

I am the dinosaur of love. Specifically, I am a pterodactyl, and you are my silent “p.” Stay quiet woman! ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #love #pterodactyl #funny