#phenomenon

It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#evolutionary #me #phenomenon #rates #seems

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? ↗

— Bette Midler

#come #how #many #natural #phenomenon

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#both #evil #good #good and evil #human

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#call #everybody #grows #hit #kid

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#celebrity #celebrity thing #happened #i #i think

I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first they're going to love 'Harry Potter,' or they may love 'The Hunger Games,' but after that, they're going to love the act of reading and wonder, 'What else can I read?' ↗

— Gary Ross

#after #creates #else #first #games

The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share. ↗

— Antonio Perez

#believe #business #fact #gaining #in fact

Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader. ↗

— Mark Pincus

#industry #leader #made #phenomenon #play

Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help. ↗

— Marion Ross

#come #denial #forward #get #getting