"Fossil may tell us many things, but one thing they can never disclose is whether ancestors of anything else."

"It seemed obvious to [Darwin] that, if his theory of evolution [were] correct, fossils ought to provide incontroverti…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"His bright spirits and kindly genial ways, the outward expression of a soul which combined with its deep sense of rel…"

"Wherever she went, Vita collected seeds and roots and s, and always travelled with a and a few potatoes into which sh…"