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Richard Preston Quotes

Dragonflies kill their prey in the air and eat it on the wing. They feed on aerial plankton, which consists of any sort of small living thing that happens to be aloft - mosquitoes, midges, moths, flies, ballooning spiders.

Richard Preston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

Topics

Small Living Air Eat Prey Feed

There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.

Rodman Philbrick

Child Compliment Greater Writer Than

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Michelle Obama

Best Democracy World Free Choose

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

Michael Jordan

God Respect Appreciation People Me

When Sinead O'Connor tore up the picture of the Pope, you could hear a pin drop. I didn't know it was coming, obviously, because at dress, she had held up a picture of Balkan orphans, which I thought was really meaningful and what she wanted to do.

Lorne Michaels

Dress Thought Picture You Know She

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Annie Dillard

Life Work Loss Remember Go Against

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

William Lloyd Garrison

Change Men Place Dangerous Moral

I think people often think of me as very intense. I'm a congressman and all, but I'm actually very laid back.

Seth Moulton

People Me Think Back Laid Back Very

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past - they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.

Scott Derrickson

Life Failure Good Fear Grateful Me

I'm a Christian, and I give the glory to God.

Tim Kennedy

God Christian Glory Give

Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.

Kenneth R. Miller

Life Faith Science Purpose Universe

I like to take a little of what I learned in fiction and apply it to documentary and vice versa.

Kevin Macdonald

Vice Fiction Little Take Documentary

In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.

Jamie Foxx

Ideas Control Looking Camera Want