quotes about Taxonomy

“I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.”

“The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.”

“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”

“We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.”

“Mazomanie doesn't even have a stoplight, so it doesn't do a lot. But the cheese curds there are unbelievable. I've never had them anywhere else, even at places in California that claim to have the real thing. There's a cheese factory in Arena, Mazomanie's neighboring town, and they'll give you fresh curds that are so amazing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.”

Source : Hendrik Hertzberg (2005). “Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004”, p.49, Penguin

“Simply put, I believe we should not seek the lowest common denominator when it comes to wilderness and saddle a wilderness designation with exceptions, exclusions, and exemptions.”

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

“Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.”

“The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.”