Quotes About Evolution

You know, by the time you get to the fourth film in a franchise you're really mining for something different. You're really looking for a way to go about things that the audience hasn't already seen.

At first, I took theater courses on the side. Then, theater became my minor; then it was my major.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

I was only a leading man for a minute; now I'm a character actor.

Every minute brings a new opportunity. Every minute brings new growth, new experiences.

My first Macintosh was a 128k machine which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible.

I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.

Our body is a masterpiece of the cosmos. Our body carries within it the stars, the moon, the universe, and the presence of all our ancestors. How many millions of years of evolution has it taken to give rise to these wondrous two eyes, legs, feet, and hands? Countless life-forms are supporting our existence in this moment. Reconnecting with our physical body takes only a few moments of stopping and breathing with awareness.

In the end we remember all the students we've gone to school with and invite them to our homes only to find out that we no longer have the least thing in common with them, I thought.

A degraded habitat will produce degraded humans. If there is to be any true progress, then the entire life community must progress.

But the point is this: stories grow out of other stories, poems out of other poems. And they don't have to stick to genre. Poems can learn from plays, songs from novels.

That's what happens when works get reenvisioned: we learn something about the age that produced the original as well as about our own.

More important, we're all capable of growth, development, and change. We can get better, although we sometimes fail to do so. To put this another way, we are all, each and every last one of us, the protagonist of our own story.

Development" and "evolution"—words of such importance to us—would have meant little in the timeless culture of Sumer, where everything that was—their city, their fields, their herds, their plows—had always been.

Nous vivons la période de la mort de la mort de l'auteur.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.

But a new thing, a great hitch, had happened yesterday in the gliding and noiseless current of his life, and he felt as a snake must feel who has sloughed off its winter skin, and cannot understand the brightness and sensitiveness of its new one.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

what I appear, a sick and poor man, is not the worst of me. I am in a chaos of principles--groping in the dark--acting by instinct and not after example. Eight or nine years ago when I came here first, I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best.

She could have never believed in the morning that her colorless inner world would before night become as animated as water under a microscope.

Judge me by my future works.

His had been a love 'which alters when it alteration finds.

Proud Songsters The thrushes sing as the sun is going, And the finches whistle in ones and pairs, And as it gets dark loud nightingales In bushes Pipe, as they can when April wears, As if all Time were theirs. These are brand-new birds of twelve-months' growing, Which a year ago, or less than twain, No finches were, nor nightingales, Nor thrushes, But only particles of grain, And earth, and air, and rain.