Dinosaurs Quotes - Page 8

• We’re all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I’m concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Rocks, Tourism, Tourists

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet. The more I spoke of the bird, the more it seemed that, somehow, its existence had been a chimera. Admittedly, my survey was small and unscientific, but intelligent people who could reel off the names of various dinosaurs and identify sparrows at epic distances could not name the forgotten parakeet. I realized, forcefully, what I suppose I knew abstractly: Histories, like species, can go extinct.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Distance, Epic, Intelligent

  Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin

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• You know what killed off the dinosaurs, Whateley? We did. In one barbecue.

  Neil Gaiman

  Barbecue, Knows

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• The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of where the American economy is headed. I mean, it's like dinosaurs gathering to talk about the evolution of a new generation of mammals.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Mean, Reality, Government

  "Democrat Bruce Babbitt". Interview with Steven Pearlstein, www.inc.com. August 1, 1987.

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• Because of the attitude of a few mental dinosaurs intent on exploiting our initial success, Brian's huge talent has never been fully appreciated in America and the potential of the group has been stifled.... If the Beatles had suffered this kind of misrepresentation, they would have never got past singing 'Please Please Me' and 'I WannaHold Your Hand' and leaping around in Beatle suits.

  Dennis Wilson

  Attitude, Past, Hands

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• Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

  Jack Horner

  Years, Teeth, Replaced

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• Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

  Jack Horner

  Variation, Had Enough, Determine

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• A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

  Mo Rocca

  Imagination, Torches, Caves

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• Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime we must not waste what we have, but must leave as much as possible for coming generations.

  Svante Arrhenius

  Humanity, Waste, Energy

  Svante Arrhenius (1925). “Chemistry in modern life”

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• That which makes you different is what makes you strong. Whether you're gay, straight, purple, orange, dinosaur; I don't care.

  Darren Criss

  Strong, Gay, Purple

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• The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

  Tucker Max

  Trying, World, Meteors

  "How This Bestselling Writer Is Changing The Rules Of The Publishing Industry". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Rock N Roll

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• And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the Thing in the Cellar. Call it the Blow Lunch Factor. Call it the Loony Tunes File. I think of it as my private dinosaur, huge, slimy, and mindless, stumbling around in the stinking swamp of my subconscious, never finding a tar pit big enough to hold it.

  Stephen King

  Depression, Dark, Blow

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• This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

  Peter Garrett

  Loss, Space, Generations

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• I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.

  Jack Horner

  Trying, Biology, Figures

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• So here's to the girls on the go
  Everybody tries.
  Look into their eyes,
  And you'll see what they know:
  Everybody dies.
  A toast to that invincible bunch,
  The dinosaurs surviving the crunch.
  Let's hear it for the ladies who lunch
  Everybody rise!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Girl, Eye, Lunch

  "The Ladies Who Lunch". Song by David C. Rakowski, Stephen Sondheim, 1988.

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• Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.

  Peter Medawar

  Science, America, World

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• The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

  David Chaytor

  Government, Challenges, Earth

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• Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.

  Alan Feduccia

  Class, Bird, Validity

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• I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.

  Cary Fowler

  Motivation, Inspiration, Keys

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• A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Survival, Age, Cockroaches

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• I use the word 'fat'. I use that word because that's what people are: they're fat. They're not bulky; they're not large, chunky, hefty or plump. And they're not big-boned. Dinosaurs were big-boned. These people are not overweight: this term somehow implies there is some correct weight... There is no correct weight. Heavy is also a misleading term. An aircraft carrier is heavy; it's not fat. Only people are fat, and that's what fat people are! They're fat !

  George Carlin

  Food, People, Use

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• I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, School, Boys

  "Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews". Book by Sam Weller, 2010.

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• Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Technology, Opportunity

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.151, Penguin

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• The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote...

  Phil Plait

  Differences, Space, Vote

  "How to defend Earth from asteroids". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2011.

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