Hayflick Quotes & Sayings

If I were two inches tall
I would sit on your shoulder all day
and nurture a relationship with your earlobe
my hands would be too small to effectively touch you
I would create empty space using the tip of my tongue
and feel afraid of every bone in my body
especially my sit bones — Mira Gonzalez

No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation. — Milton Friedman

I had awoken back to Hell on Earth with the prince of darkness himself holding me so tightly against him. Almost as if he wanted to make sure that I would never go back to that dark place where he couldn't follow. — Yolanda Olson

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years. — Leonard Hayflick

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years. — Leonard Hayflick

Angry, judgmental, and critical people don't make good evangelists. — John S. Leonard

I personally don't subscribe to any particular cosmology or beleif system. I'm a seer. — Frederick Lenz

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants. — Bob Dole

One of the things you have to get used to, working on a TV show, is filming out of sync. — Gina Bellman

They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock. As normal cells go through life, their telomeres shorten with each division until they're almost gone. Then they stop dividing and begin to die. This process correlates with the age of a person: the older we are, the shorter our telomeres, and the fewer times our cells have left to divide before they die. By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres. The presence of telomerase meant cells could keep regenerating their telomeres indefinitely. This explained the mechanics of HeLa's immortality: telomerase constantly rewound the ticking clock at the end of Henrietta's chromosomes so they never grew old and never died. — Rebecca Skloot

I'm never bored. — Jack Prelutsky

An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

What the railroads lack is not opportunity but some of the managerial imaginativeness and audacity that made them great. — Harvard Business School Press