Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to South America.

I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.

The majority of people in Angola were not provided with any kind of schooling and were completely illiterate, very badly paid, and treated almost as slaves.

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

South Africa had a long record of studies in prehistory, going back to the end of the last century.

When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the time the Romans invaded England 2,000 years ago.

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

I saw what looked like another fallen tree in front of me and put my foot on it to cross over. At that moment it reared up in front of me-the biggest python I had ever seen!

Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.

The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price.

We set up the promised clinic for the sick and wounded Masai.

The Foxhall jaw has now been missing for many years.

I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

There is tragic evidence to show that the paintings at the French prehistoric art sites are deteriorating.

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

Stone tools are fossilized human behavior.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

My view is the questions in Parliament should be the questions that people out there want asked.

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

The sacred, I shall say, is that which acts as your partner in the search for the highest and deepest things: the real, the true, the good, and the beautiful. The name I'd like to give to the kind of relationship that gives us a chance to find such things is a 'circle of meaning.'

We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.

Southerners have never been afraid of seasoning. It's kind of the other way around; our seasoning is afraid of us.

The more things you do, the more you can do.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely on accessories to make a dress that isn't working work, I do love jewelry and handbags more than anything.

I don't feel my best right now, but at the same time, I'm not trying to find any excuses or anything.

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.

I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd probably write something in the science fiction vein, but I hesitated for a long while because it's such well-trod ground.

Lying is not only a defense mechanism its also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.

I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love 'Star Wars.' I wish Jedi was a true religion.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working.

I have never wanted to be famous, as such - fame is a by-product.

Commerce has changed the ethics of citizenship and the incentives for national service. America now buys private contractors - we used to call them mercenaries - to do the country's fighting.

In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.

I think I was so successful, not because I was brilliant, but because I was so young. I had no fear of consequences.