Dinosaurs famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth-bound, feathered dinosaur. But it's not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.
-- Alan Feduccia -
Instead of regarding birds as deriving from dinosaurs, Scansoriopteryx reinstates the validity of regarding them as a separate class uniquely avian and non-dinosaurian.
-- Alan Feduccia -
Russia is like a dinosaur. A lot of time is needed for change to reach the tail from the head.
-- Alexander Lebed -
The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.
-- Belinda Carlisle -
I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.
-- Bernard Marcus -
Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.
-- Bruce Willis -
A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.
-- Carroll Quigley -
We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out
-- Colin Mochrie -
Do you know how hard it is to gather seventy thousand people? Especially people who are confused and scared that they might be eaten by hungry dinosaurs?
-- D. J. MacHale -
We don't know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?
-- Dana Rohrabacher -
The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.
-- Dean Koontz -
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
-- Eric Johnston -
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
-- Harold MacMillan -
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
-- Hazel Henderson -
I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.
-- Homer -
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
-- Jack Horner -
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
-- Jack Horner -
I'm trying to figure out the biology of dinosaurs and what they were like as living creatures.
-- Jack Horner -
Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
-- Jack Horner -
Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.
-- Jack Horner -
In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.
-- Jhonen Vasquez -
Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
-- Jim Butcher -
The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.
-- John Naisbitt -
The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.
-- Karl Hess -
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!
-- Larry Niven -
I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
-- Larry the Cable Guy -
As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.
-- Matt Smith -
No amount of study of present forms [of life] would permit us to infer [the existence of] dinosaurs
-- Max Delbruck -
Writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy
-- Michael Swanwick -
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
-- Mo Rocca -
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
-- Nathan Myhrvold -
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.
-- Phil Plait -
The difference between the dinosaurs and us is that we have a space program and we can vote.
-- Phil Plait -
If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.
-- Rachael Taylor -
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
-- Ray Bradbury -
Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.
-- Richard Dawkins -
My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word dinosaur. You're not supposed to be getting tenure. You're supposed to be figuring out how you can teach more students at a better price and more effectively. That's your job.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
Traditional dinosaur theory is full of short circuits. Like the antiquated wiring in an old house, the details sputter and burn out when specific parts are tested.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead. But the fact of ultimate extinction should not make us overlook the absolutely unsurpassed role dinosaurs played in the history of life.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
If we measured success by longevity, then dinosaurs must rank as the number one success story in the history of land life.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
Dinosaurs are the best way to teach kids, and adults, the immensity of geologic time.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations.
-- Steve Miller -
If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.
-- Steven Chu -
You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.
-- Terry Pratchett -
The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
Theres no environment I can think of that would have remained constant enough to preserve dinosaur DNA.
-- Hendrik Poinar -
When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.
-- Kenneth Lacovara -
In our case, we are in the Cenozoic Era, which started at the end of the time of the dinosaurs. We are in the Quaternary Period, which is within the Cenozoic Era. And within the Quaternary, we are in the Holocene Epoch.
-- Kenneth Lacovara -
There is no such thing as getting anything easy. Trust and believe. Even if you're good at what you do, you still should be practicing, you still should be updating, especially. Because if you don't update, you become a dinosaur.
-- Leslie Jones -
Jazz is not gonna be a dinosaur and stay around in one form.
-- McCoy Tyner -
I get nervous about the effect that the high speed of everything will have on creativity. It's already sad for me to see that a lot of young aspiring cartoonists are putting stuff on the web, doing animation on the computer rather than making zines or mini-comics, which seem to be going the way of the dinosaur.
-- Adrian Tomine -
I know that at one time, the Arctic was the tropics. And I guess I wonder what caused that? Was it dinosaur farts? I don’t know.
-- Ralph Klein -
I didn't even know what Chikara was... So I show up at the show, and I'm expecting a normal wrestling show... there's like a f#%ing dude in a dinosaur outfit walking around, and there was a stipulaton that someone would be sent back in time... Not that I disliked it or anything, I was just like, what the hell is going on.
-- Dean Ambrose -
My forte is the music. But obviously if ya don't keep up with the business, then your kinda doing it for nothing. So I do plan on being well off doing, maximizing what I do now. I heard Jimmy Kimmel describe being in your thirties in hip-hop is like the equivalent to being 300 yrs. old; almost like a dinosaur.
-- DJ Quik -
We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.
-- Eden Robinson
