Hope Jahren Quotes

Plants are decisive to a fault. A stem produces a bud that flowers once and once only. It offers pollen that is either dispersed or goes nowhere. One pollen grain either enters a stigma or it falls upon stony ground. An ovum is either fertilized or the whole project stalls out.

Hope Jahren

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FlowersPlantsProjectFaultOut

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

Joanna Trollope

ChangeYourselfPeopleYouSituation

I am best viewed from a distance... and at night.

Jenny Eclair

BestI AmNightDistanceAmViewed

I enjoy the small things.

Michael Buble

Small ThingsSmallEnjoyThings

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

Steve Jobs

ChangeChange The WorldWorldThings

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

Stephen Gardiner

ArtSpacePositionDominantRole

One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Martin Scorsese

GoodTimeNew YorkCityResearch

I don't have the level of vitriol and hatred for the other side as some of my colleagues do.

Mike Gallagher

ColleaguesHatredSideLevelSome

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

Michael King

GoodMoneyMediaWayContentBig

Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.

Colm Feore

YouKindBuyCharmCharismaEither

Athens is an amazing city for creativity. I bought a house there. A little, tiny place.

Cindy Wilson

CreativityCityAmazingHousePlace

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

Bobby Seale

PoliceStandHeroesScaredUsMove

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

Anthony Daniels

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