Leaflike Strata Quotes & Sayings

Once you become known for one thing, it's easy to become known for a second thing, a third thing, and a fourth thing. — Robert Scoble

Landowners may contribute their property as equity - always scarce for the beginning developer - but they might also supply debt, via seller financing, at terms unavailable through financial institutions. Even if they do not materially participate, landowners can tie up land while financing and approvals are obtained. In income property, key tenants might also be offered partnerships to induce them to lease space in the project, particularly if the project can be designed around the tenant's specific needs. — Richard B. Peiser

I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values. — William Clay Ford Jr.

Say a prayer for those in despair. May all their tomorrows be sunny and bright ... filled with hope to conquer over all their troubles! — Timothy Pina

To the extent that genomes can be thought of as compressed encodings of biological structures, they are spectacularly efficient. All the trillions of cells in the human body-not just the tens of billions in the brain-are guided in one way or another by the information contained in 30,000 or so genes. The best high-quality set of pictures of the body- the National Institutes of Health Visible Human Project, a series of high-resolution digital photos of slices taken from volunteer Joseph Paul Jernigan (deceased)-takes up about 60 gigabytes, enough (if left uncompressed) to fill about 100 CD-ROMs-and still not enough detail to capture individual cells. The genome, in contrast, contains only about 3 billion nucleotides, the equivalent (at two bits per nucleotide) of less than two-thirds of a gigabyte, or a single CD-ROM. — Gary F. Marcus

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases. — George Bernard Shaw

The precision of the creator's natural laws makes existence of earth meaningful — Sunday Adelaja

The Church in her worst time still hath a blessed verdure of grace about her; nay, she has sometimes exhibited most verdure when her winter has been sharpest. She has prospered most when her adversities have been most severe. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer. — Dennis Lehane