A Quote by Carl Linnaeus

It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.

Carl Linnaeus

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Carl Linnaeus
Swedish - Botanist
May 23, 1707 - January 10, 1778

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.

Thomas Aquinas

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights.

Michael Dickinson

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

Horace

Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed.

Plato

Unlike most wars, which make rotten fiction in themselves - all plot and no characters, or made-up characters - Vietnam seems to be the perfect mix: the characters make the war, and the war unmakes the characters. The gods, fates, furies had a relatively small hand in it. The mess was man-made, a synthetic, by think tank out of briefing session.

Wilfrid Sheed

I'm an actor. I have to play weird characters, quirky characters, strange characters, sometimes characters I don't understand.

Keke Palmer

The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

Tacitus

Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.

Elizabeth Debicki

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.

Alfred Marshall

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

Mark Twain

I can pretty much name and rattle off the genus and species of all the bugs you see in everyday life.

Frankie Grande

I'm portraying out characters, I'm portraying femme characters, characters that are really outside of the box. I never thought I would get that opportunity to portray those characters at all, much less have a career that I have.

Nico Santos

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

H. L. Mencken

Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book is like being trapped in a room for ten hours with those characters. Think of your main characters as dinner guests. Would your friends want to spend ten hours with the characters you’ve created? Your characters can be loveable, or they can be evil, but they’d better be compelling. If not, your reader will be bored and leave.

Po Bronson

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