Series Quotes - page 3

As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has provided us, in the latter animals, with an almost complete series of gradations from brains little higher than that of a Rodent, to brains little lower than that of Man. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
Whatever part of the animal fabric-whatever series of muscles, whatever viscera might be selected for comparison-the result would be the same-the lower Apes and the Gorilla would differ more than the Gorilla and the Man. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
So many faces in and out of my life Some will last Some will be just now and then. Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again. Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby Say goodbye to Hollywood Say goodbye my baby. View quote
Billy Joel
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. View quote
Paul Valéry
Fame is a series of misunderstandin gs surrounding a name. View quote
Joni Mitchell
I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. View quote
John le Carré
My life [is] a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. I'm actually too valuable to live my own life and spend most of my days in a vegetable crisper to remain fake news anchor fresh. View quote
Jon Stewart
Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike. (Lance Armstrong)
I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. View quote
Angela Carter
Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of. View quote
Anita Brookner
Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies. View quote
Édouard Vuillard
The living world is not a single array. . . connected by unbroken series of intergrades. View quote
Theodosius Dobzhansky
It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one. View quote
Imre Lakatos
Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart. View quote
Ralph Ellison
But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart. View quote
Michael Chabon
We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future. We shall never be able to say, "Ha! My perception, my accounting for that series, will indeed cover its next and future components," or "Next time I meet with these phenomena, I shall be able to predict their total course." View quote
Gregory Bateson
Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment. (Sri Chinmoy)
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes. View quote
George Orwell
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. View quote
George Orwell
It may seem like hindsight now, but I just knew that Doctor Who was going to be an enormous success. Don't ask me how. Not everybody thought as I did. I was universally scoffed at for my initial faith in the series, but I believed in it. It was magical. View quote
William Hartnell
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory. View quote
Albert Pike