#list

No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. ↗

— Richard Owen

#barnacles #darwin #devoted #more #mr

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#disinclined #eliminate #feel #financial #i

Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with. ↗

— Alan Parker

#heads #lists #little #most #people

Traditionalists often study what is taught, not what there is to create. ↗

— Ed Parker

#often #study #taught #traditionalists

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#head #him #his #listener #nods

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment. ↗

— Rick Perry

#about #america #barack #barack obama #based

But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president. ↗

— Laura Prepon

#annie #be the first #donna #first #hall

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, "What?" ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#beautiful #beautiful people #i #like #lists

If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians. ↗

— James Purefoy

#awful #believe #christians #fundamentalist #god

The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#bankers #businessmen #century #consistently #disastrous