Genomes Show Quotes & Sayings

Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off his palms by running them lightly down his sides. As though he were going to shake hands with somebody.
He was. He was going to shake hands with death.
He wasn't particularly frightened. Not that he was particularly brave. It was just that he didn't have very much imagination. Rationalizing, he knew that he wasn't going to be alive anymore ten minutes from now. Yet he wasn't used to casting his imagination ten minutes ahead of him, he'd always kept it by him in the present. He couldn't visualize it. So he wasn't as unnerved by it as the average man would have been.
("3 Kills For 1") — Cornell Woolrich

Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism - with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it - could never have reconciled itself to. — Philip K. Dick

There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and three cents in coins, from six centuries. — Kami Garcia

I don't know what my life needs but I know I need some balance. — Arsenio Hall

Deal with the small before it becomes large. — Laozi

Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive. — Hod Lipson

Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies. — S.E. Hinton

Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I was inclined to be bored by ethical casuistry; since I believed conduct to be a matter of taste and breeding, with virtue, delicacy, and truthfulness as symbols of gentility. Of my word and honour I was inordinately proud, and would permit no reflections to be cast upon them. I thought ethics too obvious and commonplace to be scientifically discussed, and considered philosophy solely in its relation to truth and beauty. I was, and still am, pagan to the core. — H.P. Lovecraft

Their souls were contagious ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them. — Robert Harris

Players are artists who create their own reality within the game. — Shigeru Miyamoto