"Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have died this way when a metropolis-sized asteroid or comet struck the earth 65 million years ago."

-- Sam Kean

#Cousin Quotes #Years Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian.”

Source : Thomas Goodwin (2000). “Christ Our Mediator”, p.350, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
“First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen.”
“... I just feel impotent - I don't know which way to start or turn. You know what they say about a prophet in one's own country - well - in a way it works for me too: you see - this might be called my home town - well of all the old friends and acquaintances not one takes me seriously as a photographer - not one has asked me to show my work... (On returning to San Francisco)”

Source : Tina Modotti, Amy Rule (1986). “The Letters from Tina Modotti to Edward Weston”
“A friend of mine wrote a script, a feminist romantic comedy. She had a feminist scholar consult on it. My friend said, 'Oh, my friend Gillian read it and really loved it.' She goes, 'Gillian Jacobs, you mean: Britta Perry, feminist icon?'”

Source : "'Community': Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs & Megan Ganz Roundtable". Interview with Jace Lacob, www.thedailybeast.com. February 28, 2012.
“Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.”
“I have a huge crush on Josh Hutcherson and all the guys in One Direction!”

Source : "Rebecca Black Is Back!". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 9, 2012.
“In all important respects, the man who has nothing but his physical power to sell has nothing to sell which it is worth anyone's money to buy”
“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this-or more accurately, because of this-his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz-at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.”

Source : "All American Music: Composition in the Late Twentieth Century". Book by John Rockwell, 1983.

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