Series Quotes - Page 28

• The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades.

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  Unbroken, World, Connected

  Theodosius Grigorievich Dobzhansky (1951). “Genetics and the origin of species”

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• David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.

  Terry Southern

  Son, Stories, Anthology

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• A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

  Bill Crawford

  Meaningful, Skills, Want

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• The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Reality, Humanity, Dying

  Sherwin B. Nuland (1994). “How We Die”, Vintage

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• Things always happen in series.

  Arthur Adamov

  Happens

  Arthur Adamov (1962). “Two Plays: Professor Taranne, Translated by Peter Meyer, and Ping Pong, Translated by Derek Prouse”

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• Life can have significance even if it appears to be a series of failures.

  Joseph Cornell

  Significance, Ifs

  Joseph Cornell (1993). “Joseph Cornell's Theater of the Mind: Selected Diaries, Letters, and Files”, Thames & Hudson

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• Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

  Enrique Pena Nieto

  Reform, Needs, Mexico

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• Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

  Stuart Wilde

  Life, Spiritual, Journey

  Stuart Wilde (1993). “More Love: Tender Moments”, White Dove International

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• If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

  Michael Lewis

  Winning, Media, Games

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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• Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of the sort of wholesale transformation of species that Darwin envisioned as the natural product of the evolutionary process. Few saw any reason to demur - though it is a startling fact that ...most species remain recognizably themselves, virtually unchanged throughout their occurrence in geological sediments of various ages.

  Niles Eldredge

  Age, Fossils, Saws

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• The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.

  Bill Buckner

  Running, Dream, Fate

  Interview with Don Shane (October 6, 1986), as quoted in "What Bill Buckner Said 19 Days Before Game Six of the '86 World Series" by Jason English, mentalfloss.com. October 25, 2011.

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• Life isn't always easy and we are never guaranteed that things will always go smoothly…It progresses with an almost constant series of challenges, but these obstacles are just detours that we have to take in order to meet our ultimate goals. No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  Brooke Ellison

  Believe, Adversity, Order

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• Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

  Jose Maria Aznar

  Iraq, Resolution, Violation

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• My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

  Craig Charles

  Incredibles, Lows, Has Beens

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• The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

  Alan Rosenberg

  Reality, Actors, Obstacles

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• Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

  Coleman Dowell

  Death, Block, Loss

  "Mrs. October was Here".

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• Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

  Ferdinand de Saussure

  Memories, Groups, Different

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• The most enjoyable part in writing a series is being able to visit a world I have created and revisit old friends. The challenges are making the book fresh and new for readers who have started from the beginning while still adding old information for new readers.

  Christine Feehan

  Book, Writing, Challenges

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• I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.

  Jude Deveraux

  Book, Character, Want

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• I just started writing for my own amusement and occasionally singing in little clubs around Los Angeles. Then I wrote "The Rose," and through a series of divine things that I had no control over and had no idea were going to happen, it got in the movie, and that changed everything.

  Amanda McBroom

  Writing, Ideas, Rose

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Woman of Will's Amanda McBroom, Returning to Piazza and a Wicked Thought". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 19, 2005.

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• I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, People

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Animal, World, Infinite

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• The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.

  Hermann Ebbinghaus

  Heart, Needs, Amplification

  Hermann Ebbinghaus “Memory”, Рипол Классик

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• In addition, the United States Delegation will suggest a series of steps to improve the United Nations machinery for the peaceful settlement of disputes... - for extending the rule of international law. For peace is not solely a matter of military or technical problems - it is primarily a problem of politics and people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Law, People

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

  Robert Breault

  Showing Up, Life Is, Family Photo

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