"It has taken these many hundreds of millions of years to fine-tune the Earth to a point where it is suitable for the likes of us."

-- Sylvia Earle

#Taken Quotes #Years Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.”

Source : John Playfair (1822). “The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author ...”, p.81
“It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.”
“No justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism. I had sooner play cards against a man who was quite skeptical about ethics, but bred to believe that â€˜a gentleman does not cheatâ€™, than against an irreproachable moral philosopher who had been brought up among sharpers.”
“A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.”

Source : Source: www.tor.com
“It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.”
“I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You could say I'm a laid-back kind of guy.”
“I worked with Judi Dench in Cranford. She's not at all starry, she's very easy and funny to be around, but I had such an enormous respect and regard for her before I met her that I was quite starstruck.”

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