"It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors."

-- David M. Raup

#Wings Quotes #Bird Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I've never committed to a role without a script.”
“If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put the torch there on the nightstand.”
“Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.”
“I'm like Muhammed Ali. When he said he would knock someone out in the fourth round, he did it.”
“Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.”
“Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow on our Pacific possessions. Radio makes surprise impossible.”
“'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.”
“And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.”

Source : Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Brian Dauth (2008). “Joseph L. Mankiewicz: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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