"A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago."

-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Two Quotes #Erasmus Quotes #May Quotes

“The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.5
“When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
“I have completed and uncompleted screenplays, but they both fall into the category of â€œunsold.â€ I've seen quite a few movies where the screenplays seemed to be in the â€œuncompletedâ€ category yet still got sold and made into movies, so I generally refer too all screenplays as â€œsoldâ€ or â€œunsold.â€ But that's just my own filing system.”
“All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the audience and you're really not terrified through the movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature.”
“We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.”
“Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.”
“Her forehead was a maze of anxious little grooves, from a lifetime of wondering about whether everyone within range was OK.”

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