Quotes About Evolution

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.

At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

Some scholars attribute the decline in nicknaming to the evolutionary process that turned folk heroes into entrepreneurs. The truth is: George Herman Ruth, the namely-est guy ever, exhausted our supply of hyperbole.

I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. In my opinion, country music, the sound of country, has always evolved. But the one thing that has not changed is the story element. And I think country songs are truthful songs about life written by country people.

We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

Everything goes so fast that you wake up suddenly after 5 years and you just feel like you want to talk about different [things] than everybody in the group, you want to talk about your own things.

I do love the past but wouldnt want to live in it.

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.

My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

...it behooves us to adapt oneself to the times if one wants to enjoy continued good fortune.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you'll have to run much faster.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.