Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not...
BARBARA BLOCK I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
BARBARA BLOCK I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master ...
BARBARA BLOCK White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as sa...
BARBARA BLOCK Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
BARBARA BLOCK We all are in the Bay Area and Central Coast working together on behalf of white shark conservation.
BARBARA BLOCK This is clearly a unique shark speciesthe warmest of all gill-breathers in the ocean.
BARBARA BLOCK Sharks are declining globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown,
BARBARA BLOCK This is clearly a unique shark species--the warmest of all gill-breathers in the ocean,
BARBARA BLOCK Sharks are declining globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown.
BARBARA BLOCK Sometimes
in winter the surface waters, which are less salty, were so cold that
the sharks...
BARBARA BLOCK The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would, ... But ... where our heart wou...
BARBARA BLOCK The shark heart slows down in the cold, just as our own heart would. But what sets it apart is where...
BARBARA BLOCK We
combined radio uplinking SPOTs that give us accurate positions and
data-logging PATs th...
BARBARA BLOCK Sharks are declining
globally, yet the movements and habitats of most species are unknown,
BARBARA BLOCK Sharks are some of the least understood predators on the planet. ... We can go to the moon and plan ...
BARBARA BLOCK I like to check on the position of the sharks with my coffee every morning.
BARBARA BLOCK These animals are teaching us... about basic aspects of our own physiology.
BARBARA BLOCK We tagged it, and it went out there, and the tag popped up. Then the shark came back, and we tagged ...
BARBARA BLOCK We combined radio uplinking SPOTs that give us accurate positions and data-logging PATs that store i...
BARBARA BLOCK If it's good they'll stop making it.
HENRY BLOCK We like to test things... no matter how good an idea sounds, test it first.
HENRY BLOCK Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more sui...
LAWRENCE BLOCK Watch your thoughts, for they become words.Watch your words, for they become actions.Watch your acti...
LAWRENCE BLOCK I squinted through the big window, a portal to another world, trying to get a better view of the pri...
SUSAN BLOCK I loved the zebras, the cheetahs, the fruit flies, the octopi and the rest. But The Nature of Sex �...
SUSAN BLOCK Meet the bonobos, the rare and marvelous “make love not war” great apes who swing through the tr...
SUSAN BLOCK You can't see everything quite yet. But you can see pieces of it.
CARL BLOCK We're just as happy to buy chunks of property along Route 72 and not develop it.
CARL BLOCK It would be the only major sports goods store between Egg Harbor and Toms River.
CARL BLOCK We'd want the buildings there to be in the Victorian style and perhaps have the business owners livi...
CARL BLOCK Both bonobos and common chimps are as close to humans as foxes are to dogs. I don’t know about you...
SUSAN BLOCK What people don't understand is that mental illness affects one out of five families in America. It'...
BERNIE BLOCK He was tired of fighting the fight. I admire him for lasting as long as he did.
BERNIE BLOCK It might have saved my son's life.
BERNIE BLOCK It is so needed, it's unbelievable.
BERNIE BLOCK Our coach has always been harping on the strikers to make combination plays. I think Shannon and I f...
JOSH BLOCK Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit...
LAWRENCE BLOCK One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to f...
LAWRENCE BLOCK I don't think it's any secret that Sister Hazel as a band has always walked the walk with regards to...
KEN BLOCK Those are the ones that are most important and the easiest to solve.
DAVE BLOCK Studies are one thing, but then there’s just the way bonobos make you feel. They’re so “almost...
SUSAN BLOCK I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mea...
LAWRENCE BLOCK I was seeded second (behind Bender, the defending MBC champion at 125), so, yes, it was a surprise t...
CHRIS BLOCK In general, I would say our club team does well because it consists of players with high pedigrees. ...
KEVIN BLOCK Why do anything unless it is going to be great?
PETER BLOCK By showing the importance of Seattle Center, it's a very strong argument as to why the Center needs ...
BILL BLOCK We need to write letters to every mayor, commissioner, legislator and congressional leader.
BILL BLOCK As a concerned citizen and a frequent flier, I am alarmed at what appears to be a real degradation i...
KEN BLOCK Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.
LAWRENCE BLOCK We were never far off from Travis, and when I attacked midway through the rally Travis turned up his...
KEN BLOCK The health nutrition industry has enjoyed a lot of success over the last three years or so.
DAVID BLOCK To get the most use of your money, ... it makes very little sense (to pay off a mortgage early) if y...
DAVID BLOCK If you rent, the landlord gets the deduction.
DAVID BLOCK The tax breaks are significant. The government is subsidizing your mortgage and property taxes.
DAVID BLOCK This plan makes sense if you have a business, ... It doesn't make sense if you don't have a business...
DAVID BLOCK I was worried the city I grew up in was going to be gone,
ERIC BLOCK We don't know (about the house), ... That's the scary part.
ERIC BLOCK Just to hear her voice, that's all I needed, ... It was a big sigh of relief when she called me this...
ERIC BLOCK This is a very exciting time for Cornerstone Capital Management and we are delighted to be a part of...
ERIC BLOCK We watch the news constantly here. Oftentimes, it plays a role in how we respond to a disaster.
ERIC BLOCK The response is stronger than expected, given the number of disasters in the world happening simulta...
ERIC BLOCK It's a very different disaster. We are looking at a much higher number of refugees. And they face ob...
ERIC BLOCK It's my home. It's my city. I love it there.
ERIC BLOCK Most of our work comes out of the stories or ideas of the people who are creating it. What we do is ...
ERIKA BLOCK It's about connecting two different communities across that vast distance.
ERIKA BLOCK There are stories within walking. The piece explores walking from many different angles and perspect...
ERIKA BLOCK We want to be able to build out a completely seamless experience for customers. That's where the har...
DAVE BLOCK We want to hit a 50 percent run rate for Windows Vista premium in the first 24 months. That's a subs...
DAVE BLOCK It's basically going to be a dry run for the Vista launch.
DAVE BLOCK Be careful... What the dude said, ain’t it? ... One lived in the woods and didn’t pay his taxes....
LAWRENCE BLOCK We're going to run the ball. We have been able to get ahead in the last few games, and that's the tr...
HANS BLOCK Fuck you! I hope you die!"
"Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.
LAWRENCE BLOCK It's a constant parameter of fear. The fear is that, if you can lose two [children], can you lose th...
JAN BLOCK That was quite a thrill and not something I anticipated in the beginning, by any means. You walk in,...
JAN BLOCK It's hard for me to even go watch the game and know he's not out there.
JAN BLOCK No one ever says I CAN imagine losing two sons. They always say they CAN'T imagine losing two childr...
JAN BLOCK What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather ...
SUSAN BLOCK There really is not a set rule besides each law enforcement agency's established procedures. It depe...
LISA BLOCK We're looking for the registered owner and we will be asking them where their vehicle is.
LISA BLOCK While in Israel, members have the opportunity to meet with both Israeli and Palestinian officials, h...
JOSH BLOCK Changing up all the time would be bad because you get used to one. You know they'll do a good job, i...
JOSH BLOCK Congress is continuing its strong support for cutting-edge defense programs, which benefit the Unite...
JOSH BLOCK I guess you can say we finally got [what] we deserved. We've been playing really hard but couldn't q...
JOSH BLOCK But what's interesting here is Wal-Mart's becoming a content company.
RYAN BLOCK It's a concrete demonstration of the health care crisis in our country. Everybody's getting poorer b...
RICHARD BLOCK Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in ...
PETER BLOCK Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on se...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done wi...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we g...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Love is a dangerous angel.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not ver...
A HARVEY BLOCK It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and sh...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK The ideas that come out of most brainstorming sessions are usually superficial, trivial, and not ver...
A. HARVEY BLOCK Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the ill...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK My reading and studying and retellings of old stories didn't do anything except help me think better...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Magic can be found in stolen moments.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about c...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even tho...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK We're just as happy to buy chunks of property along Route 72 and not develop it.
CARL W. BLOCK They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Do you know when they say soul-mates? Everybody uses it in personal ads. "Soul-mate wanted". It does...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Life was small but good. (15)
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happenin...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weigh...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK It would be the only major sports goods store between Egg Harbor and Toms River.
CARL W. BLOCK You can't see everything quite yet. But you can see pieces of it.
CARL W. BLOCK We'd want the buildings there to be in the Victorian style and perhaps have the business owners livi...
CARL W. BLOCK But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark....
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Be love because you are.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK And when it is over he will say, Come live with me above the palm trees, eat chocolate eggs in hotel...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, an...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK There’s nowhere to escape,” Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.'
She...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up li...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK No matter where I am, I am always loving you.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at wh...
DR SUSAN BLOCK Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had d...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground
for burned mermai...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic und...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Dirk, this is Peace, Granola, Crystal, Chi, Aura, Tahini, and the twins, Yin and Yang," Duck said. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK No one noticed Witch Baby as she went back inside the cottage, into the room she and Cherokee shared...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK So Witch Baby played. Tossing her head, sucking in her cheeks and popping up with the impact of each...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Under the twinkling trees was a table covered with Guatemalan fabric, roses in juice jars, wax rose ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK He might be faithless but I believe in him.
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER