"When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised."

-- Sylvia Earle

#Simple Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Men. You can't live with them, you can't... no. That's about it.”
“The rain probably dampened the spirits of those that decided not to come. But the people who were here didn't know it was raining because they were having so much fun.”
“The works of 'abstract' art are subtle creations of order out of simple contrasting elements.”

Source : Jan Tschichold (1967). “Asymmetric Typography”, New York : Reinhold Publishing Corporation
“In 2003, a lot of us were saying, 'Where is the link between Saddam and bin Laden What does Iraq have to do with 911 Which is why it drives me crazy to hear all these Democrats saying, 'We were misled.' It makes me want to shout, 'F-- you, you weren't misled.' You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.”
“I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.”
“You only live but once, and when your died your done, so let the good times roll.”
“I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq is so much more important than investing in passenger rail right here in the United States of America.”
“When you begin to lose the fire a little bit and if you're not giving 100 percent out there, then it's time for you to leave because you'll end up getting hurt - I want to be able to walk away on top.”

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