Fernel Quotes & Sayings

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable. — Paul Berg

The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive. — Jeff Henderson

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin. — Bell Hooks

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events. — Jean Fernel

People talk about the happy quiet that can exist between two loves, but this, too, was great; sitting between his sister and his brother, saying nothing, eating. Before the world existed, before it was populated, and before there were wars and jobs and colleges and movies and clothes and opinions and foreign travel
before all of these things there had been only one person, Zora, and only one place: a tent in the living room made from chairs and bed-sheets. After a few years, Levi arrived; space was made for him; it was as if he had always been. Looking at them both now, Jerome found himself in their finger joints and neat conch ears, in their long legs and wild curls. He heard himself in their partial lisps caused by puffy tongues vibrating against slightly noticeable buckteeth. He did not consider if or how or why he loved them. They were just love: they were the first evidence he ever had of love, and they would be the last confirmation of love when everything else fell away. — Zadie Smith

There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity — Witold Gombrowicz

We're a bunch of intellectuals who sit in the Atelier or in the Grillon and talk to each other. And when we write, we write for each other. We have absolutely no connection with the people.The people don't know we exist. — Ahdaf Soueif

This became a credo of mine ... attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. — Bette Davis

Belong to me, Story. Even if it's just for a little while. — Tessa Bailey

Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night. — S.A. Tawks

In the Great War, there is no room for the faint-hearted, the cowardly. A criminal or an anarchist will be better conditioned than a bourgeois, indecisive or cowardly man. They only need a push in the right direction. Only one who is born a hero or a warrior has a place in our order. Only the Lord of the Pure Will can march to the end, breaking in the gates of the City of Eternal Life. Because will, through its perseverance, creates the thing it contemplates. Only the Wild Hordes of Odin and Parsifal will achieve the Graal. — Miguel Serrano

Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what? — Wallace Stegner

I went to the Home Depot, which was unnecessary. I need to go to the Apartment Depot. Which is just a big warehouse with a whole lot of people standing around saying "We don't have to fix anything." — Mitch Hedberg