"The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits."

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George Julius Poulett Scrope

#Book Quotes #Science Quotes #Fit Quotes

“I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.”
“My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.”
“It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.”
“When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you look at her and your actions are another way to communicate. Don't focus on dialogue, only focus on what you're expressing.”

Source : "[Cannes Interview] 'The Artist' Director Michel Hazanavicius and Star Berenice Bejo". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. May 18, 2011.
“Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.”
“Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.”
“I leapt eagerly into books. The charactersâ€™ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”

Source : Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.24, Penguin
“As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are documenting the sacred buildings of Calvinism. Calvinism rejects all forms of art and therefore never developed its own architecture. The buildings we photograph originate directly from this purely economical thinking.”

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