Famous Quotes & Sayings

David J. Anderson

Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

Dick Thornburgh

Yet, Puerto Ricos economic convergence and political integration with the rest of the nation is in a state of arrest - even though the island has been within the national borders, political system and customs territory of the U.S. for a century.

Jeff Greene

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

Charles Sturt

Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude.

Dave Barry

You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.

Dave Barry

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

David Quammen

Islands are where species go to die.

Benicio Del Toro

You have to kill to survive. People have been doing it forever. I eat meat, and I eat fish. If I were on a deserted island I would need that to survive.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend their entire lives on a fantasy island called 'Someday I'll.'

Chris Cornell

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

Dennis Prager

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

Deborah Tannen

The key to conversation at work is flexibility and understanding how what you say might be perceived by others.

Debra Messing

If I have a pocket, then I'll have lip balm, my keys, and $10 cash.

Barton Seaver

The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.

Eddie Van Halen

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

Earl Nightingale

The key that unlocks energy is desire.

Deepak Chopra

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you.

Dick Taylor

Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.

Thomas Fuller

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Byron Katie

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

Charles Godfrey Leland

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

bell hooks

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Benjamin Disraeli

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

Abraham Verghese

Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.