Danishefsky Total Synthesis Quotes & Sayings

Himself an ugly man, insignificant
of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others. — W. Somerset Maugham

My first poem was a bolt from the blue ... it broke a spell of disillusion and suicidal despondence. ... it filled me with soul satisfying joy — William Carlos Williams

Limited to 140 characters to confess sins and meet his Maker,
"tweeting" may not have been the best use of his final moments. — Robert K. Blechman

I'll make fun of anybody. We're all about falling down and going boom on camera. — Stephen Colbert

The home of every soul is not among another's glory, but should be within another's soul. — Yixing Zhang

Military officers destitute of military knowledge; naval officers with no idea of a ship; civil officers without a notion of affairs; brazen ecclesiastics, of the worst world worldly, with sensual eyes, loose tongues, and looser lives; all totally unfit for their several callings, all lying horribly in pretending to belong to them, but all nearly or remotely of the order of Monseigneur, and therefore foisted on all public employments from which anything was to be got; these were to be told off by the score and the score. — Charles Dickens

It is absolutely outrageous that a spin doctor for Labor's NBN Co is being paid $450,000 per annum by Australian taxpayers to promote a company that generates no revenue, has no customers and provides no services to anybody — Nick Minchin

I would have sooner believed in fairy tales coming true.
Of course, we all believe in fairy tales now. The Scarlet Varulv has slunk out of the pages and lives with me in this cottage. The Sleeping Prince has woken and sacked Lormere, an army of alchemy-made golems behind him as he murders his way across the country.
Stories are no longer stories; characters run rampant through the world these days. All I'm waiting for is Mully-No-Hands to knock on the window, begging to come in and warm himself, and my life will be complete.
Actually, no, that's not what I'm waiting for. — Melinda Salisbury

All the fabulous and fearless writers gathered here, whether they are living in Manila, the US, or elsewhere in the ever-growing Philippine diaspora, have a deep connection and abiding love for this crazy-making, intoxicating city. There's nothing like it in the world, and they know it, — Jessica Hagedorn

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one. — Helmut Jahn

Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with her. — Nick Kelsh

I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. — John Milton

I never liked anyone who didn't have a temper. If you don't have a temper, you don't have any passion. — Michael Bloomberg