Quotes About Wallace

Both McGovern and Wallace, he said, draw on the same pool of extremely alienated blue-collar voters, a group that is constantly getting deeper into bitterness, cynicism, and resentment about the current government.

Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.

Unlike Darwin, Wallace seems to have had no fear that an understanding of evolution would corrupt public morality—indeed he saw the evolutionary process, and our understanding of it, as potentially ushering in a wonderful future. I think that's because Wallace realised that while evolution by natural selection is a fearsome mechanism, it has nevertheless created a living, working planet, which includes us, with our love for each other, and our society.

It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, "Madame la Fleurie," Collected Poems I

When the views advanced by me in this volume, and by Mr. Wallace, and when analogous views on the origin of species are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

Wallace, it turned out, was a big fan of Rolling Stone and me. When he died we had hours of tape of him trying to explain his life.

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle: That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. —David Foster Wallace, "Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness" (2005)

So my offense is what, misdemeanor gargling?

gesture a lot and look wild-eyed and generally pissed-off in some broad geopolitical way.

The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.

It Was a Great Marvel That He Was in the Father without Knowing Him

Mr. Incandenza, this is the Enfield Raw Sewage Commission, and quite frankly we've had enough shit out of you.

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Wallace Beebs came quickly in response

Two things in life I hate - one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Toward the close of the campaign, a day was spent in the state's largest city, Birmingham. It is, in Alabama, the closest thing to alien turf for Wallace, not only because of its relative sophistication, but because the Republican party is particularly robust there.

Buckley warned, "Those conservatives who take sly pleasure from Wallace's techniques should reflect that that kind of thing is do-able against anybody at all; do-able for instance by the Folsomite Wallace of yesteryear, who roared his approval of his candidate's attack on the 'Wall Street Gotrocks,' 'the damned decency crowd,' and 'them Hoover Republicans

Gasol walked away with 18 rebounds, exactly half of them offensive. That was more than the combined total of Garnett, Wallace, and Baby Davis.

Wallace thought that much of nature showed strong evidence of purpose, as he forcefully conveyed in The World of Life: A Manifestation of Creative Power, Directive Mind and Ultimate Purpose.4 In other words, in modern parlance, the very cofounder of the theory of evolution was an intelligent-design proponent.