Robert Brown Botanist Quotes

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all. ~ Jason Robert Brown

Relax," Langdon whispered. "Do your piranha thing. ~ Dan Brown

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion. ~ Robert Caro

If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods. ~ Dan Brown

The jury is still out on whether I'm a genius or not. ~ Jason Robert Brown

Actually, if you ask my really close friends, they would say that 'Honeymoon' is more me than anything else I've written. ~ Jason Robert Brown

When days seem like years and years feel like days. ~ Robert Brown Fulford

I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different. ~ Jason Robert Brown

Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well. ~ Robert McAfee Brown

Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon ~ Dan Brown

Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos. ~ Jason Robert Brown

These motions were such as to satisfy me, after frequently repeated observation, that they arose neither from currents in the fluid, nor from its gradual evaporation, but belonged to the particle itself.
[Summary of Brownian motion.] ~ Robert Brown

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

For as long as there have been heroes, those half-brave, half-mad souls willing to dash headlong against things that would send most of us screaming in the other direction, there have been stories to immortalize their journeys. ~ Nathan Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt. ~ Jason Robert Brown

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old. ~ Jason Robert Brown

There are actors I have very strong chemical responses to, and I strive always to figure out ways to work with them and get them to sing my stuff. ~ Jason Robert Brown

It's about one moment. It's about hitting the wall and having to make a choice, or take a stand, or turn around and go back. ~ Jason Robert Brown

I think that when you write for stars, I think that you have to be very specific about what they do beautifully and let them bring it to life. ~ Jason Robert Brown

In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss. ~ Jason Robert Brown

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller. ~ Dan Brown

You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it? ~ Jason Robert Brown

Zobrist yesterday afternoon." "We most certainly did - " Sienna placed a restraining hand on Langdon's arm. "Robert ... " She gave a grim sigh. "Six ~ Dan Brown

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice. ~ Robert McAfee Brown

Scientists and spiritualists often use different vocabularies to describe the exact same mysteries of the universe. The conflicts are frequently over semantics, not substance. - Robert Langdon ~ Dan Brown

Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Scottish pastor and writer from the mid-1800s, said, "The greatest need of my congregation is my own personal holiness."1 ~ Daron Brown

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture. ~ Robert McAfee Brown

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne. ~ Dan Brown

Who we listen to determines what we hear. Where we stand determines what we see. What we do determines who we are. ~ Robert McAfee Brown

I did musicals in high school, certainly. And then I just kept wanting to do them. I felt at home in the theater, in that way that, you know, you're supposed to if that's the kind of person you are. ~ Jason Robert Brown

As much as I can act, I don't have anything in me that yearns to be an actor - that sense of needing to be onstage, in costume, in character; that is utterly not interesting to me. ~ Jason Robert Brown

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them. ~ Jason Robert Brown

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else. ~ Robert McAfee Brown

When men were all asleep the snow came flying, In large white flakes falling on the city brown, Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town. ~ Robert Bridges

When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing. ~ Jason Robert Brown

Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. ~ Dan Brown

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell. ~ Jason Robert Brown

What really matters is what you believe. ~ Dan Brown

One important aspect of justice, Jose Miranda reminds us, involves the restoration of what has been stolen. Giving food to the hungry or clothing to the naked is not a charitable handout but an exercise in simple justice - restoring to the poor what is rightfully theirs, what has been taken from them unjustly. ~ Robert McAfee Brown

My work is very popular with performers, and there are theatre people who get what I'm doing and what tradition I'm working in. I'm very grateful to them - they're my people, who understand why I work the way I do. ~ Jason Robert Brown

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder. ~ Jason Robert Brown

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer. ~ Dan Brown

I love my stuff - you're not supposed to say that. But because I'm performer as well as a writer, I'm constantly interacting with my own work. I always get to find these little secrets that I left for myself, little notes - I find them all over the scores. ~ Jason Robert Brown

I find I like the spotlight for a very brief period of time ... and I sort of need it. But then, the minute that it's done, I have to sort of go hide. So I was never really meant, I think, to be a performer for a living. ~ Jason Robert Brown

One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night. ~ Deborah Brown

The mathematics of Malthus? A quick Internet search led him to information about a prominent nineteenth-century English mathematician and demographist named Thomas Robert Malthus, who had famously predicted an eventual global collapse due to overpopulation. ~ Dan Brown

What I aspire to do, and what I try the hardest to do, is write stuff that's very personal in its way. I figure I can only say things the way I say them, so I'm trying to do something that is kind of anti-generic. ~ Jason Robert Brown

We need two homes, a green one and a brown one, a grown one and a built one, two worlds in tension. ~ Robert Harbison

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before. ~ Louise Brown

I named my new son James Joseph Brown II. I think he's going to be a lot better than I was. ~ James Brown

It is scary to write - period - for me, but once you get past the idea that it's scary to write, I still can only be who I am. As a writer, my job, to me, is to expose myself - to really sort of dig in and find out who I am and then put it on the page. ~ Jason Robert Brown

He won't hurt me. I have a secret weapon. ~ Sandra Brown

Nobody speaks smut to my wife and gets away with it. ~ Sandra Brown

There are values far beyond those of contracts, markets and exchange ~ Gordon Brown

Enjoy it. One way or another, your days are numbered. ~ Dan Brown

Real world signore. You're in it tonight ~ Dan Brown

My new favourite pastime is listening to Michael Brown read his poetry"
Sigourney Weaver ~ Michael Brown

Kohler shrugged. Sometimes to find truth, one must move mountains. ~ Dan Brown

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then. ~ Dennis Brown

Anything is possible when people believe in a cause. ~ Dan Brown

So in 1910 a Danish botanist, Wilhelm Johannsen, self-consciously invented the word gene. ~ James Gleick

I wrote this life in pencil so I could always make a change ~ Marc D Brown

One great work of art inspired by another. ~ Dan Brown

Our lives mean so much more than the frail bodies that carry them. ~ Pierce Brown

Never make a promise you cannot keep. ~ Dan Brown

Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian bush, with the objective of collecting observable facts about the native flora. It is undoubtedly the case that the botanist will be capable of collecting facts that are far more numerous and discerning than those I am able to observe and formulate, and the reason is clear. The botanist has a more elaborate conceptual scheme to exploit than myself, and that is because he or she knows more botany than I do. A knowledge of botany is a prerequisite for the formulation of the observation statements that might constitute its factual basis.
Thus, the recording of observable facts requires more than the reception of the stimuli, in the form of light rays, that impinge on the eye. It requires the knowledge of the appropriate conceptual scheme and how to apply it. ~ Alan F. Chalmers

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. ~ John Mason Brown

We all have some screws loose, common sense and intelligence can diminish that ~ Doug Brown

The Lord works in mysterious ways. ~ Dan Brown

There is more than one Sue Brown. ~ Sue Brown

The hardest thing about being James Brown is I have to live. I don't have no down time. ~ James Brown

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing. ~ Dan Brown

As I always said, if people wanted to know who James Brown is, all they have to do is listen to my music. ~ James Brown

Dr. Jacobus, I am walking out your doors right now. I need clothes. I am going to Vatican City. One does not go to Vatican City with ones ass hanging out. Do I make myself clear? ~ Dan Brown

The roads to salvation are many.
Forgiveness is not the only path. ~ Dan Brown

Wise men read books about history. Strong men write them. ~ Pierce Brown

He looked like a man searching for an out. Any out. ~ Dan Brown

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist ~ Enrico Fermi

Wisdom is in books, ... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing. ~ Dan Brown

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. ~ Dan Brown

To prosper, your superior must prosper. ~ Pierce Brown

Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils. ~ Dan Brown

I am a child of hell, and I've spent too long in their heaven. ~ Pierce Brown

Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it. ~ Margaret Wise Brown

We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong. ~ Robert James Brown

When i close my eyes i see you no Matter where i am ~ Zac Brown

We are who we protect, what we stand up for."
-- Sophie, via Dan Brown - The DaVinci Code ~ Dan Brown

False alarms are not uncommon in the workplace. ~ Asa Don Brown

Dead man shouldn't have no fears. Makes his passing easier. ~ Samuel Snoek-Brown

Children begin becoming aware of their sexuality at a very young age. ~ Asa Don Brown

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. ~ Eleanor Brown

Communication is the railway of information linking two intersecting paths together. ~ Asa Don Brown

Katherine stopped abruptly and looked at Langdon. "Robert, Melencolia I is here in Washington. It hangs in the National Gallery."
"Yes," he said with a smile, "and something tells me that's not a coincidence. The gallery is closed at this hour, but I know the curator and - "
"Forget it, Robert, I know what happens when you go to museums." Katherine headed off into a nearby alcove, where she saw a desk with a computer.
Langdon followed, looking unhappy. ~ Dan Brown

Perception and worldview are one's summary of life. ~ Asa Don Brown

Communication is a way of life. ~ Asa Don Brown

We are capable of changing, challenging, and developing new beliefs throughout our lives. ~ Asa Don Brown

Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for these buildings were little more than tinder and brown paper, putting on airs of architecture. ~ Robert Charles Wilson

Precision can be suffocating ~ Dan Brown

Jodi Orgill Brown is inspired by people who live fulfilled lives in spite of their struggles. She loves spending time with her muses, ~ Jodi Orgill Brown

Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved. ~ Asa Don Brown