The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

I want to be better informed with regard to ichthyology.

The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.

We have had a very severe frost and deep snow this month. My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point, within doors.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

The parish of Selborne, by taking in so much of the forest, is a vast district.

It is, I find, in zoology as it is in botany: all nature is so full, that that district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Hedge-hogs abound in my gardens and fields.

Numbers of snipes breed every summer in some moory ground on the verge of this parish.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them.

Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.

Don't worry about perfection. Nature doesn't grow in straight lines.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Every country has a dark side of their history.

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.

If you share a common ancestor with somebody youre related to them. It doesnt mean that youre going to invite them to the family reunion but it means that you share DNA. I think its fascinating.

The only time I get afraid is when I am at the ocean. I get a little nervous when I'm in the water because I always feel like something is going to bite or snatch me.

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

Oprah is just this goddess presiding over so much of American life, and her story is really interesting - the way she made herself, and the ruthlessness it took, and also the fantasizing that it took.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper.

Every time somebody calls me out or tries to start something, it's motivation.

Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.

On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'

The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

Humility is not about having a low self image or poor self esteem. Humility is about self awareness.

I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.

It is hard to be a woman. You must think like a man act like a lady look like a young girl and work like a horse.

When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself.

My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.