E. O. Wilson Quotes

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

E. O. Wilson

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GodThoughtsEvolutionImportant

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

John Cleese

TruthMeIdeasBetterLaughYou

Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.

Melinda Gates

GovernmentWorldDifferenceGround

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Max Weber

GoodGood And EvilEvilTrueFollow

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

AgeTimeHabitBusyBadPerson

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

John Hughes

StyleEarlyEmbarrassingProseSort

The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.

Michael Korda

KnowWhyWillWayTurnOut

I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute!

Miranda Cosgrove

CuteThinkFriendsRememberOutHe

When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.

Diane Abbott

ChildrenFoodDayTreatInternet

I used to think I was ordinary and just like everybody else, and I am, but there is something about being in a band. It's not for everyone.

Chrissie Hynde

I AmThinkBandEveryoneSomething

Environmentally friendly business practices have long been mainstream, particularly when they create a brand advantage, as with organic foods.

Chrystia Freeland

BusinessBrandLongCreateFriendly

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audience instead of having to wait for your audience as you do if you're writing a book, and you get a bit of money coming in, and you can see more clearly how you're paying the bills. But it's not a good position for the serious novelist to be in.

Anthony Burgess

GoodMoneyWaitWritingBookEnjoy

How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.

Allen Tate

PoetryWriteQuestionHappenWhere

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