Lubert Stryer Quotes & Sayings

Last month we had to sit through a presentation on eliminating redundancy, and it was a bunch of Power Point slides, plus a guy reading out what was on the slides, and then he gave us all hard copies. I don't understand these things. — Max Barry

I have so many photos of me where I'm laughing like a crazy person. I don't know what it is, but I just go with it. — Zach Woodlee

A very tall bearded guy was standing in a doorway, smoking a cigarette. "Hey", he said.
"Hi," I said. "Excuse me, do you rehearse here?"
"Yeah," he said, extending his hand and saying, almost formally, "Gibby Haynes. I'm in the Butthole Surfers."
I shook his hand. "Moby," I said. "I just moved upstairs."
"Are you an artist?"
"No, a musician."
"Oh, cool. Welcome to the building."
"Do you know who else has spaces here?" I asked.
"Well, there's us and Iggy and Sonic Youth and Helmet and Sean Lennon and the Beastie Boys and some other people," he said as someone behind him started making a wall of feedback. — Moby

Sometimes falling rain
carries memories of betrayal
there in the woods
where she was not meant to be
too young she believes
in her right to be free
in her body
free from harm
believing nature
a wilderness she can enter
be solaced
believing the power
that there be sacred place
that there can be atonement now
she returns with no fear
facing the past
ready to risk
knowing these woods now
hold beauty and danger — Bell Hooks

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone. — George R R Martin

The gods to each ascribe a differing lot: Some enter at the portal. Some do not! — Ford Madox Ford

I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism. — Elif Safak

So yesterday,' said Gabriel. 'Remember when I flipped your tray?'
'No. I forgot all about it.'
'Totally didn't know you'd have soup on there. Jesus, I didn't even know the cafeteria sold - — Brigid Kemmerer

My sister." Lanthe rolled her eyes. "For someone so cool, she's turned into a mother hen. Weird. — Kresley Cole