“It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.” DifficultTermBecomingCivilizationComplicatedEvolveExpertsBecoming MoreExplicit Book:Evolution and Ethics Source: Evolution and Ethics
“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.” LooksEarthOrderChanceStrangeMoonFamiliarEvolveHorizonCurves Author:Gene Cernan
“Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of 'health insurance,' which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill.” ThinkingDoneMomentsGovernmentCertainMorningDefinitionsCome UpAccessEvolveFederal GovernmentPillsObamacareContraceptionMorning AfterSterilization Author:John Cornyn
“I like things that are hand made - but personally for a man, I'm not interested in fashion that evolves with time. I like things to be the same. For a woman I think it's fantastic to have things that are different - it's like a flower where every season there's some new exotic bloom.” ThinkingMenMadeDifferentHandsFashionFlowerSeasonsFantasticEvolveNot InterestedExotic Author:Roman Coppola
“You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.” ArtGrowsGrowthHopefullyEvolve Author:Fefe Dobson
“People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.” PeopleLife IsFunGrowsEvolveFascinatingTragic Author:Fred Durst
“The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny.” CharacterHumanityDifficultInterestingNotesSolveEvolveSunny Author:Hope Davis
“I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.” PeopleThinkingDifferentMediaTypeObviousDataEvolveUsersFilesAudioMp3Napster Author:Shawn Fanning
“Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'” LanguageProcessCenturyDemocraticMessEvolveKnightsQuirksDemocratic ProcessIrregularity Author:Joshua Foer
“To make a song is a gift, and once it's done it keeps evolving and changing and becomes a tool to interact with other people. It's like a conversation.” PeopleDoneSongConversationToolsEvolve Author:Ryan Adams
“I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.” KnowsWritingVoiceFictionIssuesHeardIdentityContemporaryEvolveRangeDiverseContemporary Fiction Author:Jessica Hagedorn
“Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.” KnowsFallExampleFundamentalsFamiliarAgentsEvolveIndianGenesOrganismsJumpingCornStripes Author:Nina Fedoroff
“I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.” YearsIdeasEndsInterestingEvolveSurplus Author:Miranda July
“Stay and respond and expand and include and allow and forgive and enjoy and evolve and discern and inquire and accept and admit and divulge and open and reach out and speak up, this is utopia.” PhilosophySpeakEnjoyAcceptingForgivingEvolveReach OutUtopiaDivulge Author:Alanis Morissette
“We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.” IfsNeedsGivingLongHelpingPurposeDiesFightingStarsDifficultTermSpaceDestinyGrowingPeriodsAdultsRootsSpeciesStriveEvolveLong TermSmoothChaoticDinosaursCrazinessApocalyptic Author:Octavia Butler
“If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.” IfsNeedsYearsCharacterFallGrowsAudienceToo MuchFalling In LoveEvolve Author:Angela Kinsey