Foolers Brook Quotes & Sayings

[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon. — Francis Collins

Songs are often character studies. — John Darnielle

This uncovered a number of basic features of our thought processes: that the mind deploys a set of rival frames that can construe even the most plodding everyday event in more than one way; that a frame for thinking about a change of location in real space can be metaphorically extended to conceptualize a change of state as motion in state-space; and that when the mind conceives of an entity as being somewhere or going somewhere, it tends to melt it down to a holistic blob. — Steven Pinker

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood. — Pawel Pawlikowski

Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world. — Meghan O'Rourke

The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation. — William Hazlitt

The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work. — Kathleen Winsor

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that. — Jane Gardam

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Love is the language all animals understand. — Anthony D. Williams

I hope to be granted asylum. Deportation [ from Germany] that would be a death sentence for me. — Irakli Okruashvili

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood. — Sheri L. Dew