Gene Genie Quotes & Sayings

I'd rather eat nothing than eat a carrot. — Marian Keyes

When young writers approach me for advice, I remind them, as gently as I can, that they are on their own, with no help available anywhere. Which is how it should be. — John Banville

See how forgiving - how brave nature is. — Yusef Komunyakaa

It was somehow wonderful of her to be, in every detail, herself. — John Updike

I know I'm not an anti-Semitic person. — Jim Caviezel

Remember I told you I've taken a vow of chastity. You understand what that means, right?
Yeah," he said. "You're very generous. I think that's cool."
I didn't quite get his answer, but I didn't want to prolong the conversation. [ ... ]
That's when it dawned on me what Greg had meant. [ ... ] Um, that's charity, Greg, not chastity.
He is so not the right guy for me.(137-138) — Robin Brande

To look back on one's life is to experience the capriciousness of memory ... the past is not static. It can be relived only in memory, and memory is a device for forgetting as well as remembering. It, too, is not immutable. It rediscovers, reinvents, reorganizes. Like a passage of prose it can be revised and repunctuated. To that extent, every autobiography is a work of fiction and every work of fiction an autobiography. — P.D. James

If you've been driving for a little while and nothing's happened to you yet - and you've been texting and driving - you think, 'Oh nothing's going to happen.' But all it takes is an accident happening with one of your friends or God forbid, something happening to you, to really give you a wake-up call. — Victoria Justice

Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee. — Chip Heath

The more we increase the active participation and partnership with young people, the better we serve them ... And the more comprehensively we work with them as service partners, the more we increase our public value to the entire community. — Maria Del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu Y Franco

It was never just about painting everything white, I set out to create comfortable spaces - visually comfortable spaces. My mind always feels a little scrambled, so being in simple rooms helps me to think straight. — John Pawson

Our bodyguard is a born-again Christian with a father complex, a drinking problem, intellectual limitations and not enough backbone to do his military service with honor. In short, a guy we should be pleased is going to be reelected today. — Jo Nesbo