Charles Lyell Quotes

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.

Charles Lyell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 14, 1797 - February 22, 1875

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When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.

Jim Carroll

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I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

Jennifer Grey

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I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

Jennifer Tilly

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That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.

Jello Biafra

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Every good government is made up of good families. The unit of good government is the family, and anything that tends to destroy the family is perfectly devilish and infamous.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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To win you have to risk loss.

Jean-Claude Killy

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I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles is with mortality; and no one at all is immune to it, which makes it even more interesting to me. Some people fall in love, some don't. Some sky dive, some don't. Everyone who lives, ages.

Amy Bloom

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Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.

Ronnie Wood

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It gets to you as a father when your kids don't react to you in the way you imagine.

Mo Farah

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Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

Deepak Chopra

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I had spent many days hungry; had slept on railway stations at times because I did not have money to pay for a hotel room... there were moments when I felt I had compromised my dignity as a human being and as an actor.

Anupam Kher

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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Peter Agre

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