The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.

The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

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.

The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, the more they are limited and subject to variation within small distances.

The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.

Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions.

When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd "and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.

We all wish there were more 'Bridesmaids' out there.

I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.

'Atlantic City' is very good.

I think good acting is always character acting.

It's a law of our natures, especially when the political fit is on us, to applaud where we already approve, and deride where we don't.

You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they're not so bad.

I've studied psychology. I'm fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.

I wish I had never taken naked pictures of myself on a phone to send to a girl. It's the worst thing ever.

In Yet Another Paradox Bulimia Nervosa Serves As Both An Expression Of Feelings And A Defense Against Experiencing Feelings Particularly Shame Anger Loneliness Sadness Envy And Guilt. A Person With Bulimia Nervosa Fear Whether Consciously Or Unconsciously That Painful Feelings Would Be Unbearable Even Annihilating.

I was opposed to doing TV for a long time because I thought the quality of writing wasn't very strong, as opposed to film, but there's been a shift in term of the quality of scripts. HBO has attracted a tremendous amount of great writing talent.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

There is an attitude that we should be able to have everything. No, you shouldn't be able to have anything. I'd like a helicopter, but I can't afford a helicopter, so I don't buy one. People are buying stuff they can't afford on credit. I bought my Ford hybrid with cash.

The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.

There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.

When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.