Frans de Waal Quotes

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

Frans de Waal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: October 29, 1948

Topics

GreatMoreSeemSocialUsCognitive

The record industry needs a company like HTC to bring music to the phone.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicPhoneCompanyBringIndustry

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

Jodi Picoult

MeWritingDrivingHandsSometimes

You are either visual or you're not.

Joel Grey

YouVisualEither

It's funny when you follow your own sort of bliss, then other people tend to respond in kind, meaning audiences. It's really weird how that works, but it does seem to apply to 'Nancy & Beth' especially.

Megan Mullally

FunnyPeopleWeirdMeaningYouKind

I think that essentially, since music was invented, it's basically reached out and touched every single kind of conceivable generation.

Rob Halford

MusicThinkGenerationKindSingle

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Roy Harper

MusicWordsSongYouDoneSomething

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

Ron Perlman

RealityDangerousKindLivingOff

It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new 65? The last time Washington politicians tinkered ever so gingerly with the government-sanctioned retirement age, Ronald Reagan was in office and Generation X-ers were all in diapers.

Michelle Malkin

AgeTimeRetirementGenerationNew

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?

Milos Forman

HeroWarPeopleEndHeroesNuts

Basically what I'm trying to tell you is that it's almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you're in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don't recommend it.

DJ Khaled

TimeWaterCityNightImpossible

The only time it got really crazy was during 'Batman.' Anywhere I went in the world, people knew who I was. I was being offered these huge films that would have taken my career to a different level, and I decided to put on the brakes. I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn't have gotten married.

Chris O'Donnell

TimePeopleCrazyWorldCareer

I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.

Colleen Haskell

CareNowCampingDaysSeems

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