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Stephen Jay Gould Quotes

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

Stephen Jay Gould

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History People Brilliant Evidence

I'm always drawn to stories that people don't know about, particularly when they're inside of a story that everyone knows about.

Robert Redford

People Story Know Inside Always

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

Meryl Streep

Mother Parenting Me Interesting Pets

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

Tommy Rettig

Life Acceptance My Life Rejection

Mostly, I just want to be in my house reading and writing.

Julia Sweeney

Writing Reading House Want Just

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

Jay-Z

Day Fire Man Situation Play Games

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

Jose Saramago

Construction Fashion Human Always

I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.

Josef Albers

Good Time Man Me Name Know

I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.

Jose Andres

Food Street Singapore Dishes Did

I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old.

Derek Hough

Fast Old Years Up England Moved

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned.

Colleen Haskell

You Say Somebody Movie Learned

Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.

Anthea Butler

Women Men America White Country

My mother had a very open-minded philosophy about having children: that they should be free to develop in their own way.

Annabelle Wallis

Mother Children Free Philosophy Way