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“The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each other, and all manifested by creatures far surpassing in size the largest of existing reptiles, will, it is presumed, be deemed sufficient ground for establishing a distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles, for which I would propose the name of Dinosauria.”
Source : Report of the Eleventh Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science "Report on British Fossil Reptiles" (1842)
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“Earlier in my political career, I had the opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up.”
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“I like to apply storytelling methods and techniques to try to frame the story in an interesting way, but you can never control what's happening.”
Source : Source: www.indiewire.com
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“Phil Spector is probably a better date than Roman Polanski.”
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“I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.”
Source : Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2007). “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life”, p.6, Broadway Books
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“The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.”
Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House
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“If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private, serene humor in his eyes. 'There is little logic in condemning something one has not experienced...or does not remember experiencing.”
Source : Diane Duane (1983). “The wounded sky”, Star Trek
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“There's no greater feeling than moving a man from Point A to Point B, against his will.”
