Pastoral Resources

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

It's important for me to see as many colors in the character as possible.

I can't wait til I get the chance to be a character and how my face looks isn't the first consideration.

Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

A major fault, for example, is the fact that, along with the materialist principle, Darwin introduced into his theory of evolution reactionary Malthusian ideas.

Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

Attitudes are more important than facts.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing.

I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.