Microtubules Quotes & Sayings

There is no life that does not have the material for despair in it, but some people go too close to the edge and others manage to stay sometimes sad in a safe clearing far from the cliffs. Once you cross over, the rules all change. — Andrew Solomon

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap? — Ian O'Doherty

For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions. — Dan Sperber

The market is the only critic that matters. — Walter Kirn

A hundred canes shattered in the sun, like a load of antihistamines falling out of an airplane. — Donald Barthelme

Stood looking at him incredulously for a moment, and then they took after him. Stuttering Bill had watched the unequal race from its start to its preordained conclusion from his place against the side of the building. No sense getting involved; those three galoots would be just as happy to beat up on two kids for the price of one. — Stephen King

Silence is death, and you, if you talk, you die, and if you remain silent, you die. So, speak out and die. — Tahar Djaout

A man is not judged by how much he made or the power he gained in his life, but by the love that he shared and the lives that he touched. — Jason P. Stadtlander

I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me. — Michael Graziadei

We have found that fusions of GFP with the RING finger domains of certain E3 ubiquitin ligases creates an unstable GFP. We have used unstable GFP to learn how disruption of microtubules in the touch receptor neurons causes a generalized reduction in protein levels in the cells. — Martin Chalfie

A pond with one fish is better than an ocean with none. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild. — Keith Preston

I haven't felt the way I feel today in so long. — Brandon Boyd

I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was 12. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are. If you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you. — Bubba Watson

Dedicating time when I really can't afford to be
I'll provide protection if you open up the door for me — Drake

The Gospels fall apart without miracles. Today's discomfort with the miraculous reflects a fundamental unwillingness to believe God can do anything. Frankly, if God can create the world out of nothing, having his son still a storm to me seems reasonable. — Anonymous

My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much of them in sheer dry bulk as there is the rest of me. Looked at in this way, I could be taken for a very large, motile colony of respiring bacteria, operating a complex system of nuclei, microtubules, and neurons for the pleasure and sustenance of their families, and running, at the moment, a typewriter. — Lewis Thomas