#tops

I nurtured my dinomania with documentaries, delighted in the dino-themed B movies I brought home from the video store, and tore up my grandparents' backyard in my search of a perfect Triceratops nest. Never mind that the classic three-horned dinosaur never roamed central New Jersey, or that the few dinosaur fossils found in the state were mostly scraps of skeletons that had been washed out into the Cretaceous Atlantic. My fossil hunter's intuition told me there just had to be a dinosaur underneath the topsoil, and I kept excavating my pit. That is, until I got the hatchet out of my grandfather's toolshed and tried to cut down a sapling that was in my way. My parents bolted out of the house and put a stop to my excavation. Apparently, I hadn't filled out the proper permits before I started my dig. ↗

— Brian Switek

#dinosaur #excavation #hatchet #paleontologist #triceratops

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#auditorium #embarrassment #helping #here #i

That made me think I could contribute more to society by looking at people on the autopsy table and feeding back the findings so that lots of people could benefit, rather than just treating patients one at a time. ↗

— Michael Baden

#back #benefit #contribute #could #feeding

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same. ↗

— Michael Baden

#autopsy #battered #been #evidence #expertise

A winner never stops trying. ↗

— Tom Landry

#stops #trying #winner

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands. ↗

— David Duval

#ball #grew #grown #hit #i

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#cleaning #growing #growing up #house #kids

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#act #because #clay #could #crime

You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#else #everywhere #tops #unheard #you

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. ↗

— Imran Khan

#aid #better #colonialism #country #death