Extremophiles Examples Quotes & Sayings

Let the stars guide you to your sacred-path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The war is going on, and I'm singing. But I can't bandage up the wounded like Tala. I can, of course. But so can hundreds of other young women. Let the daring and decisive ones do it, not those like me. No, I'm daring and decisive, too. And I want to sing. It's not my fault that my youth came in time of war! I won't get another youth! And I'm convinced that singing when all around is hatred and death is no less important. Maybe even more important.

This is what I believe: If somewhere on earth the wounded are finished off with rifle butts, that means somewhere else people have to be singing and rejoicing in life! The more death there is around, the more important to counter it with life, love, and beauty! — Mikhail Shishkin

It is woefully hard to find good, or even merely literate, writers, and they laugh at me when I say that sloppy, go-as-you-please writing carries less authority than decent prose. You must remember our public, they say. And indeed that is what I do, and I think the public is fully able to deal with the best they can produce. Patronizing the public, and assuming that it hangs, breathless, upon what it reads in the papers, is almost the worst of journalistic sins. — Robertson Davies

This is the beauty that emerges from self-confidence, class confidence. That says, I am not born to please. I am born to be pleased. — Susan Sontag

We seek neither convenience nor ease, but to live at the edge of possibility. — Jane Kirkpatrick

He warned me of the lion's den and I am glad I didn't listen. — Malak El Halabi

If you spot anything, or you think of anything I haven't, tell me, won't you?" This was rather thrilling: Robin prided herself on her observational powers; they were one reason she had secretly cherished the childhood ambition that the large man beside her was living. — Robert Galbraith

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. — Primo Levi

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened. — Peter L. Berger

By definition, it is not possible to everyone to be above the average. — James C. Collins

Just drop your jeans and gimme those genes. — Marcus Sakey