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Lewis Thomas Quotes

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.

Lewis Thomas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: November 25, 1913 - December 3, 1993

Topics

Good I Am Eye You Become Out

If you don't physically age gracefully, it's a bit sad. I think Steven Tyler can get away anything, because he still looks like he did in '73. Especially from row Z backwards in an arena. As long as the Stones keep their hair and don't get fat they'll get away with the wrinkles.

Joe Elliott

Age Sad Hair Wrinkles Think Fat

My own thinking has evolved. You find Africanisms in American speech. You find an African influence on United States culture. There are all kinds of Africanisms in America, as you would expect, if you really thought about it... That whole thing is much broader; the influence is much broader than I first understood.

Amiri Baraka

Culture Influence Thinking Thought

I had a very happy childhood. I was lucky to grow up surrounded by nature and animals, to be outside all the time, and to work on a big farm with my dad.

Stan Wawrinka

Work Nature Time Childhood Happy

I have a Missouri Fox Trotter. So mine's like a quarter horse, but just a much better gait - it moves very fast.

Mitt Romney

Better Horse Fast Fox Mine Just

I wasn't an active feminist in the '60s, never have been.

Doris Lessing

Never Active Been Feminist

I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.

Rik Mayall

Good Opinion Questions Enemy Know

The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.

Mark Bittman

Plants Better Diet Hands Easy Meat

I've written virtually as long as I've acted, it wasn't a sudden transition. I acted in my first play when I was 16 and I wrote my first play when I was 17.

Lennie James

Long Transition Play First Wrote

I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.

Kurt Masur

Together Enough Play Orchestra Bring

My mom bought me an 'Anne of Green Gables' journal. And I just remember thinking it was so cool, and I could write anything in it.

Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Me Cool Mom Green Thinking Remember

The kitchen oven is reliable, but it's made us lazy.

Jamie Oliver

Food Kitchen Lazy Reliable Us Made

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

Hozier

Man Portrait Artist Young Young Man