Quotes About Evolution

A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.

The advent of Kindle, the iPad, and other portable reading devices has so far simply resulted in turning analog print into digital print while keeping the same linear prose format.

Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

Most of us came out of Popeye, so turning Popeye into something believable was tricky enough.

At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.

I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.

Square is turning informal, cash transactions, like you would do with a taco truck, into card swipes. Stripe is more for the Internet, it's focused on the kinds of transactions that weren't possible years ago. We think about how you would buy things from a mobile phone, crowd-funding, how should that work.

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

Before turning 32 is an amazing time to do radical things. You figure out who you are while you figure out who you are not.

When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

I'm actually thrilled with the woman I'm turning out to be.

The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.

I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

It was sad to leave 'Pippin' because it was a kind of inspirational turning point in my life. But it was time to move on.

Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Mexican Shuffle was a turning point of the Brass.

The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.

Everyone seems to be surprised that I've changed post-marriage. But what's so surprising about it? You must change; it's such a big turning point in your life.