Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

People perceive me as a commodity. They just don't think anything of asking for five minutes of my time. It never occurs to them that if they're asking for it and another thousand people are asking, I don't have 1,000 five minutes to give.

Stephen Jay Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002

Topics

TimePeopleMeThinkNeverAsking

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.

Robert Plant

TimeThinkSheepSameSingI Think

One can find a squalid America as easily as a scenic America; a bitter, hopeless America as easily as the confident America of polyethylene wrapping, new cars, and camping trips in the summer.

Robert Kennedy

ConfidentAmericaFindSummerNew

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

Matthew Shipp

PeopleWorldLookingGenerationYou

My captors were definitely aware that what they were doing was wrong. It came out in small ways - occasionally through a show of guilt or compassion. One of the boys bought me a gift. Another used to sneak me acetaminophen tablets.

Amanda Lindhout

CompassionMeSmallGiftDoingOut

You don't have to be serious all the time to do a good job.

Simone Biles

GoodTimeJobYouSeriousGood Job

The lucky village of Sodeto, in the kingdom of Aragon, is a cluster of sensible houses spackled together off the main road, curtained behind a pine copse.

Michael Paterniti

TogetherRoadVillageLuckyPine

I still have such a thing for leather jackets. I have a closet full of them, and my husband is always saying to me, 'Why do you need another jacket? You have plenty of jackets.'

Judy Blume

MeSayingHusbandYouWhyJacket

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

Diana Rigg

BrotherMeJealousRememberNice

The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

Douglas Coupland

LifeDieYouLivingGetYour

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home.

Bobby Doerr

HomeBaseballDiamondsDoingOver

When I joined 'Essence,' I was a young, single mother. I was 24. I hadn't gone to college. I wasn't making any money at 'Essence' - what was it, $500 a month - and I was struggling. So I was always looking down the road, always hoping for a better, you know, tomorrow.

Susan L. Taylor

MotherMoneyTomorrowCollegeRoad

In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.

Tite Kubo

FansArtistsJapanFarRatherApart

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