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Hugh Miller

"Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come."

Source : Hugh Miller, Harriet Myrtle (1859). “Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio”, p.127

Hugh Miller

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“I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.”
“He who rejects the Bible has nothing to live by. Neither does he have anything to die by.”

Source : FaceBook post by Greg Laurie from Aug 24, 2011
“I know the stars are my home. I learned about them, needed them for survival in terms of navigation. I know where I am when I look up at the sky. I know where I am when I look up at the Moon; it's not just some abstract romantic idea, it's something very real to me. See, I've expanded my home.”
“It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it”
“You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2003). “Three Fates”, p.257, Penguin
“I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“The nice thing about Farscape is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.”

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