Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection is just three factors - over-production, variation, and inheritance combined to produce adaptation to changing local environments. It's not a principle or progress; it's just a principle of local adaptation. You don't make better creatures in any cosmic sense; you make creatures that are better suited to the changing climates of their local habitats.

The progress that some of the manufacturers have been making seems to have stalled.

The progress is such that we can have a provisional separation.

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

The programs are coupled together by their funding.

The program is now back on track, there's not going to be a big holdup.

Olivier Theyskens

The problem is that the street has to be clean. It's not easy.

The problem is that these institutions made it through the storm but the worst may be yet to come.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

Alan Alda

I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.

Ada Yonath

Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.

We have to be proud of what we did today.

This will give them visas within 10 days. The other process could take 10 months, or a year or two.

This will be the prototype racetrack for the world,

Otto Hahn

I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.

Ovid

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

I want to give producers more financial security.

I never went to a university, and I am proud to say so because I don't think I have done too badly.

We're still working. We're making slow progress, but it's a long process.

We're trying to show him that this kind of program can work.

We're trying to raise some questions in an entertaining but thought provoking way without preaching.

Mike Garrett

We're trying to provide cross-training to inspectors that are already certified in other areas. Basically, we're trying to do more with less.

Bryce Dallas Howard

I'm very sturdy and very proud of it.

There are not many prospects in the short term.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Fred Brooks

How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Maggie Wheeler

When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

(But) she didn't even have a proper injury.

Andrew Weil

We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization.

Pele

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.

When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.