David Attenborough Quotes

The most extraordinary thing about trying to piece together the missing links in the evolutionary story is that when you do find a missing link and put it in the story, you suddenly need all these other missing links to connect to the new discovery. The gaps and questions actually increase - it's extraordinary.

David Attenborough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

TogetherStoryQuestionsTryingYou

I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person I'd do this with.' So we tried, but I was a little long in the tooth for that sort of thing. But we didn't turn it into a soap opera. We tried for about a year or so, and it didn't happen and took that to mean it wasn't meant to be.

Megan Mullally

ChildrenThoughtYearLongPerson

No use to shout at them to pay attention. If the situations, the materials, the problems before the child do not interest him, his attention will slip off to what does interest him, and no amount of exhortation of threats will bring it back.

John Holt

ChildProblemsAttentionBackWill

It feels, to me, when you're with someone you really love, you never look at your phone.

Matthew Gray Gubler

LoveMeSomeoneYouLookPhone

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Robert Frost

FireWorldEndIceSayWill

Freedom is a muscle... you have to exercise it.

Roy Scheider

FreedomExerciseYouMuscle

I know the first thing I want to do when I come back from a loss is to get in the gym and get better.

Miesha Tate

BetterLossGymBackKnowWant

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract.

Michael Shermer

ExperiencePeopleIncompetenceFired

I've been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they're loath to do that because they think if it's a documentary it has to be deadly serious - it has to be like medicine that you're supposed to take. And I think it's what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.

Michael Moore

HumorMedicineThinkYouSerious

I love watching Edie Falco; she's so layered, and her work is so great.

Judy Greer

WorkLoveGreatSheWatchingHer

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

Drew Brees

HopeBiggerAspirationsHopesThan

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers - they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

Donald Rumsfeld

LawyersStreamUpGetMiddleLike

'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.

Cilla Black

BlindPerfectWhyUnderstandFirst

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by David Attenborough