Rostock Germany Quotes & Sayings

The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done — Horatius Bonar

Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts. — Jane Yolen

It turns out that inheritance has surprisingly little influence on longevity. James Vaupel, of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, in Rostock, Germany, notes that only 3 percent of how long you'll live, compared with the average, is explained by your parents' longevity; by contrast, up to 90 percent of how tall you are is explained by your parents' height. Even genetically identical twins vary widely in life span: the typical gap is more than fifteen years. If our genes explain less than we imagined, the classical wear-and-tear model may explain more than we knew. — Atul Gawande

You know crazy straws - they go all over the place? These straws are sane. They never lost their mind. They say, "we're going straight to the mouth. That guy who takes a while to get there? He's crazy." — Mitch Hedberg

Personally, I don't deal much in theory. I have to deal with the facts. And on the basis of facts, I don't see much difference in the behavior of men and women. — Michael Crichton

If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don't want to cry anymore, you don't listen to that song anymore. — Jay Asher

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom

And in my own life I am not willing to trade quality for quantity. — John Steinbeck

He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not
drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is
only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts.
(Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV) — William Shakespeare

Real loss only occurs when you lose something that you love more than yourself. — Anonymous

Open duh computer." Germans ought to farm out all positions of petty authority. The accent remained too full of implication. — Jonathan Lethem

As for the world of fashion and celebrity, I have the usual interest in the human comedy, but the problems of depiction absorb me more. — David Hockney

For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm an elite, recreational juggler. — Gracie Gold

My cousin Jeff used to say that the tragedy of relationships is that women want men to change, and they don't, while men don't want women to change, and they do. — Maggie McNeill

When synchronised swimming first appeared on TV, we laughed very heartily, and I, for one, applauded the decision to introduce humour into the Olympics. — Arthur Smith