#era

The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea. ↗

— Georges Cuvier

#areas #contain #depths #dig #especially

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#appalled #fact #i #life #literally

Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl. ↗

— Claire Danes

#desperately #girl #good #good girl #growing

I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work. ↗

— Claire Danes

#australia #boyfriend #business #even #had

The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#american worker #average #average american #day #fifty

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil. ↗

— Grace Darling

#exaggerated #illustrations #inflated #pen #pencil

Now I can broadcast to an audience of several million people on the 'Today' programme. I can talk about the day's news. But on radio, believe it or not, we have notes and scripts. And while we might ad lib the odd wryly amusing asides, they come at the frequency of a suburban bus. About one every 90 minutes. ↗

— Evan Davis

#about #ad #amusing #audience #believe

It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code. ↗

— Francis Crick

#across #appear #code #come #conclusion

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book. ↗

— Hansie Cronje

#been #book #busy #last #literally

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ↗

— Anthony Crosland

#luxury #necessity #next #sees