French Author Colette Quotes & Sayings

Thank God the Power Rangers showed up when they did, or he wouldn't have been responsible for his actions. — Laura Kaye

A team from Sydney, Australia, has lowered levels of these proteins using light. They implanted human genes associated with Alzheimer's into mouse DNA, so that the animals developed abnormal tau proteins and amyloid plaques. Then they treated them for a month with low-level light therapy, simply by holding the light one to two centimeters above the animals' heads. Using the same spectrum of near-infrared light that has helped in traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's disease, and retinal damage, they lowered both the pathological tau proteins and the amyloid plaques by 70 percent in key brain areas that Alzheimer's affects. Thereafter signs of "rusting" decreased, and the mitochondria, the powerhouses of the cells, improved their function. — Norman Doidge

In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another. — Adolf Hitler

How tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day. — Agatha Christie

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do. — Beth Simone Noveck

Some guys play not to get hurt, and they're never really as good as they can be. That's not the way I play. — Jeff Kent

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts. — Sabine Baring-Gould

I aint drive here I got chauffeured — Drake

This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous. — Beth Ditto

Sometimes I fall asleep at night with my clothes on. I'm going to have all my clothes made out of blankets. — Mitch Hedberg

The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved — Umberto Eco

One cancels the other, and yet without one, the other is incomplete. In the first photograph, standing there in our black robes and scarves, we are as we had been shaped by someone else's dreams. In the second, we appear as we imagined ourselves. In neither could we feel completely at home. — Azar Nafisi

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real? — Orhan Pamuk