Asa Gray Quotes

The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

Asa Gray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 18, 1810 - January 30, 1888

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The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

Joan Didion

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It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

Andreja Pejic

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Melodies are just honest. They can only be what they are. Words have the capacity for deception. They're all full of subtext, and some of them are cliche and overused and vernacular. They're tricky. All I can say is, words are tricky.

Andrew Bird

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I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.

Max Martin

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This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

Matthew Weiner

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I have a pretty active presence on social networking sites, and every day there are messages from so many young girls telling me that they are happy B-Town has curvy women like me. I feel you should be happy the way you are. Of course, fitness is important, but not to the extent of obsession!

Sonakshi Sinha

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What's really neat about the Orthodox church is that it's like walking back in time 2,000 years to the time of the Apostles, when they created these services. You walk into that and it's really like... living it. They have maintained the truth ever since the beginning.

Troy Polamalu

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The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Tommy Chong

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When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

Chuck Palahniuk

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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.

William Hague

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I want to have a street named 'Swae Lee.' It doesn't need to be a busy street.

Swae Lee

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