Cillizza Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

It was the kind of place where hard drinkers came to wrestle their demons while fallen angels drank alone in dark smoky corners. — Ian Tregillis

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. — Jamie Murphy

That's just where I must part company with you, Inspector," said the Vicar with a gentle smile. "I'm rather a voracious reader of mystery stories, and it's always struck me that the detective in fiction is inclined to underrate the value of intuition. — John Bude

I never wanted to do away with my intensity because I felt it was a gift that helped put fuel in my engine, giving me exceptional drive and energy. — Paul J. Meyer

What propels an embryo from one stage to the next-and makes one species different from another-is not a blueprint but rather an enormous autonomous library of the instructions contained within its genome. Each gene does double duty, specifying both a recipe for a protein and a set of regulatory conditions for when and where it should be built. Taken together suites of these IF-THEN genes give cells the power to act as parts of complicated improvisational orchestras. Like real musicians, what they play depends on both their own artistic impulses and what the other members of the orchestra are playing. As we will see in the next chapter, every bit of this process-from the Cellular Big 4 to the combination of regulatory cues-holds as much for development of the brain as it does for the body. — Gary F. Marcus

The war against terror is like a war against dandruff. It's a metaphor. It's not about anything. — Gore Vidal

I have a little theory about that, too. It's clearly envy. It's bringing people down to your size. It's a narcissistic impulse that didn't used to exist, but we've become increasingly narcissistic as a society, and envy is one of those outcomes. — Drew Pinsky