Conserved Genes Quotes & Sayings

And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that's my opinion, expressed as politely as possible. — David Gaider

Even the damned can dream - infact, it's part of their torment. To escape, even for a second or two, to forget reality and drift, only to be yanked back into the waking world like a fish caught on a line ... Yes. In some ways that's even worse than to have no relief at all. That second of two, on awakening, when anything still seems possible — Joanne Harris

When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble;
When everything is silent and perfect,
There is just perfection and nothing
To fill the air. — Dejan Stojanovic

I see paintings everywhere. I look at stuff and it looks like painting to me. — Julian Schnabel

Mars is not Earth. It doesn't have a thick atmosphere to bend light and carry particles that reflect light around corners. It's damn near a vacuum here. Once the sun isn't visible, I'm in the dark. Phobos gives me some moonlight, but not enough to work with. Deimos is a little piece of crap that's no good to anyone. — Andy Weir

Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data
i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. — Jean Baudrillard

Improvement is nature. — Leigh Hunt

Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion. — J.J. Abrams

I hoped to lose myself so the day would effectively be over, and I would have no time between now and seven a.m. to worry about what would happen tomorrow ... — Jennifer Echols

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck. — Albert Einstein

Bremmer stared uneasily and Bosch dismissed him with his hand. The reporter closed the door and went to his own car. — Michael Connelly

Every woman is a mad ugly bad old witch somewhere in her heart. — Philippa Gregory

It was once said that this is the land of the free. There is, I believe, a statue out there in the harbor, with something written on it about "Give me your hungry ... your oppressed ... give me pretty much everybody"-that's the way I remember it, anyway. The idea of America is a mutt-culture, isn't it? Who the hell is America if not everybody else? We are-and should be-a big, messy, anarchistic polyglot of dialects and accents and different skin tones ... We need more Latinos to come here. And they should, whenever possible, impregnate our women. — Anthony Bourdain