#vol

Natural selection is not evolution. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#natural #natural selection #selection

My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#become #coalition #come #hear #hope

In a designed economy there would be no trees, or certainly no very tall trees: no forests, no canopy. Trees are a waste. Trees are extravagant. Tree trunks are standing monuments to futile competition - futile if we think in terms of a planed economy. But the natural economy is not planned. Individual plants compete with other plants, of the same and other species, and the result is that they grow taller and taller, far taller than any planner would recommend. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #trees #design

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.' ↗

— Bill Condon

#close #could #couple #five #get

I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly. ↗

— Sean Connery

#boring #chance #conversations #english #french

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#am #different #different place #even #i

Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#everyone #formality #get #grilling #involved

No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#dad #did #grandparents #his #i

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve. ↗

— Bobby Flay

#believed #better #continues #could #days

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present. ↗

— Scott Cook

#already #because #even #greatest #made