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Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the Viking lander experiments of nearly 40 years ago, there's still no Exhibit A that points unequivocally to biology in our own back yard. -- Seth Shostak
You might be a redneck if your pocketknife has ever been referred to as Exhibit A. -- Jeff Foxworthy
almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial. -- Tom Robbins
You might not have thought it possible to give birth to others before one has given birth to oneself, but I assure you it is quite possible, it has been done; I offer myself in evidence as Exhibit A. -- Sheila Ballantyne
A hint of a frown touched his mouth. "I told you that wasn't about feeding." "No, it was about you making your point." I skewered a bite and chewed. "Next time, maybe use something other than my jugular as your Exhibit A? -- Jeaniene Frost
Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out. -- Chris Kraus
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. -- Herbie Hancock
The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. -- Rupert Sheldrake
Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit. -- Tracy Morgan
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate. -- James Ransone
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. -- Charles Williams
Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them. -- Amy Vanderbilt
The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit. -- Wayne Dyer
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. -- James F. Cooper
For somebody in my neighborhood to aspire or revere a person from the upper class, that is the most ugly and pathetic behavior you could exhibit. -- Joel Kinnaman
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives. -- Joe Baca
Although the trends are promising and reishi mushrooms exhibit a number of interesting medicinal properties, modern scientific techniques have yet to affirm its traditional 'panacea polypore' status. -- Paul Stamets
A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador. -- Felix de Weldon
The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards. -- Thalia
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. -- William Kingdon Clifford
The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day. -- Biz Stone
But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. -- Mary Shelley
A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart. -- Buddha
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. -- Steve Prefontaine
Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration. -- Joe Nichols
We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit. -- Katherine Dunham
If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities. -- Lawrence Lessig
It's funny, I'm very analytical in my real life, but in terms of my films, I try to not analyze them at all and let things just go into them and let them be what they are. I mean, people ask me to this day what 'The Squid and the Whale' stood for, and I have no idea except that it's an exhibit in the Natural History Museum. -- Noah Baumbach
To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom. -- Ashley Montagu
I have no use for people who exhibit manners. -- Amy Vanderbilt
When you are required to exhibit strength, it comes. -- Joseph Campbell
Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character. -- Jim George
People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility. -- Roy Baumeister
Nobody expects you to exhibit godlike strength, excepting maybe yourself. -- Juliet Marillier
You don't make your character in a crisis, you exhibit it. -- Oren Arnold
I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition. -- Jean Cocteau
Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity. -- Charles Darwin
We don't have home movies in my family. We have people's exhibit A. -- Christopher Titus
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To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit. -- Rick Riordan
Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert. -- Dwayne Hickman
Children are marvelously and intuitively correct physiognomists. The youngest of them exhibit this trait. -- C. A. Bartol
We should exhibit no self doubt to our friends, ... Credibility is a strategic asset. -- John McCain
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. -- Lydia Sigourney
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments. -- Theophile Gautier
At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance. -- Steven Sinofsky
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum. -- Vladimir Nabokov
I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be. -- Alexander Hamilton
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. -- Aristotle
All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way. -- John Ruskin
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. -- Eric Maisel
Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys. -- Caitlin Flanagan
Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is. -- Oswald Chambers
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. -- Carl Sandburg
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness. -- Iain Banks
All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have. -- Alphonse Karr
I prefer to see a good exhibit sponsored by a brand than a bad exhibit due to lack of funds. -- Dries van Noten
Every creative person can draft into service those around them who exhibit the right mixture of intelligence, insight, and grace. -- Edwin Catmull
A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once. -- Honore de Balzac
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. -- Charles Darwin
By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways. -- Mac Anderson
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, Im very fortunate. -- James Ransone
That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit. -- Jane Austen
The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.' -- Stephen Rodrick
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. -- Jacques Barzun
When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you. -- Elizabeth George
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. -- O. S. Hawkins
I love Francis Bacon. I just saw a great Jackson Pollock exhibit at the Dallas Museum when I was home for Thanksgiving. -- Owen Wilson
Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books. -- W. H. Auden
All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits. -- Richard Axel
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work. -- Jerry Saltz
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves. -- John Naughton
The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle. -- Jesse Jackson
Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings. -- Emma Watson
When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Because sloths' metabolisms are so slow, they don't exhibit many external signs of stress and it can be hard to determine their mood. -- Ann Burton
Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared. -- David Mamet
Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards. -- Robert A. Heinlein
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. -- Andrew Wyeth
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit! -- John Pringle Nichol
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God. -- Jim Elliot
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain. -- Henry David Thoreau
As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences. -- Joseph Stowell
Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules. -- Semir Zeki
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns. -- Vladimir Nabokov
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. -- Henry David Thoreau
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in. -- Charles Spurgeon
Digital has really achieved a certain image quality for capture. There's also the way we view and exhibit films. It really touches all aspects of cinema. -- Christopher Kenneally
The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power. -- Oswald Chambers
Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity. -- Rudolf Arnheim
When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more? -- Honore de Balzac
What exhibit buildings God will have! The historical exhibits, the scientific exhibits, the spiritual exhibits, to be able to see the marvelous wonders of the Spirit World! -- David Berg
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world. -- Jim Drain
Many companies at the 2013 NAB show were showing LTO tape archiving technology. The LTO Consortium had a popular exhibit at the 2013 NAB promoting the new LTO 6 tape standard. -- Tom Coughlin
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture. -- Orhan Pamuk
An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business. -- Warren Buffett
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve. -- John Gregory Dunne
The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project. -- Peter Menzel
In 1967 there was no place for photography in a contemporary art gallery. It was almost impossible to get an art dealer to look at, let alone exhibit, anything photographic. -- Mel Bochner
I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn't been changed since the 19th century. -- Susanna Kearsley
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause. -- William Cowper
I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d! -- John Quincy Adams
We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image. -- Max Lucado
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger? -- Fannie Hurst
People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone--by teasing, for example. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease. -- Daniel D. Palmer
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well. -- Zaha Hadid
I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating. -- Parker Posey
Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and make fouler still with its slime? -- Henry David Thoreau
When I write, I disturb. When I show a film, I disturb. When I exhibit my painting, I disturb, and I disturb if I don't. I have a knack for disturbing. -- Jean Cocteau
For a lot of us, the opposite of auspicious coincidence is obstacles. Life usually is a mixture of both, but as we begin to exhibit exertion, more and more auspiciousness happens. -- Sakyong Mipham
Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection. -- Oliver Ellsworth
I've made my life's work spotting assholes. And you know, I think it's harder now than ever before because there's so many socially acceptable ways to exhibit a pathological lack of empathy. -- Merrill Markoe

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