Thomas Huxley Quotes

If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.

Thomas Huxley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895

Topics

WorkNatureManBrainBetterKind

Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.

Jincy Willett

GirlHateWritingPushYouCookies

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

Jerrod Carmichael

LoveArtResponsibilityThinkPush

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

Robert Kiyosaki

ExperiencePeopleLearnBadStreet

Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.

Jeff Grubb

Working TogetherTogetherStoryYou

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.

Sophocles

WordsPainCheckStillYourCure

I actually have a pretty good sense of humor.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

GoodHumorSense Of HumorPretty

When I was 22 years old, and I first got to Nashville, women or girls were objects. It was a conquest. My emptiness inside and the external manifestation of my ego was to somehow conquer women.

Rodney Crowell

WomenEgoConquerNashvilleFirst

I am ridiculously high-maintenance.

Rufus Wainwright

I AmAmRidiculously

I love to play the songs that got me to where I am. I like to take a little bit from all of my records and mix it up.

Mat Kearney

LoveI AmMePlayUpLittle

Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.

Matt Bomer

ImaginationWordsDownMoreHuman

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

Michael Scheuer

ManCareTake CareWorryEnemyHim

I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.

Jason Mitchell

EasyYouWhiteDownPlaceNew

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