Quotes of: Selected Keyword

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

Richard Rhodes

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

Sergio Aragones

When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.

Laura Mennell

To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

Dennis Banks

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

Maurice Wilkins

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

E. O. Wilson

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

E. O. Wilson

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

Don Rose

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

Daniel Dennett

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Jay Inslee

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

Barry Ritholtz

I love the idea of sharing some of what we find in the research phase with a select community of people early on as a perk for their donating, and then gauging their feedback.

Steve James

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

Aaron Eckhart

Isn't it strange how people are selective about the truth the want to see or hear?

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

Robin Ince

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Rockefeller

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.

Selected Papers in Molecular Biology

shrimp and green peppers are shriveling in my refrigerator

Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

No wonder I’d never had any friends. I was shockingly bad at it.

The Selection