Subcellular Locations Quotes & Sayings

Projecting an air of self-assurance will take you a long way. — Auliq Ice

Harvard astronomer Owen Gingerich (2006) reported that there are more than 100 billion galaxies. One of these, our own relative speck of a galaxy, has a few hundred billion stars, many of which, like our Sun-star, are circled by planets. On the scale of outer space, we are less than a single grain of sand on all the oceans' beaches, and our lifetime but a relative nanosecond. — David G. Myers

I wondered what it does to each of us to spend the majority of our waking hours doings things we'd rather not do, wishing we were outside or simply elsewhere, wishing we were reading, thinking, making love, fishing, sleeping, or simply having time to figure out who the hell we are and what the hell we're doing. — Derrick Jensen

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair's off to one side and I feel like I've been in the foxhole all day. I don't think comfort is good for music. It's good to come out with skinned knuckles after wrestling with something you can't see. I like it when you come home at the end of the day from recording and someone says, "What happened to your hand?" And you don't even know. When you're in that place, you can dance on a broken ankle. — Tom Waits

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me. — Bryan Magee

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it. — David Lloyd-Jones

Know your limit and circle of influence; you are not called to meet the needs of everyone — Bernard Kelvin Clive

Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to learn it. — Orrin Woodward

I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of self-destruction ... — Charles Dickens

I may be small, but I can put away a lot of food.
Sarah — Dianne Duvall

It's time you stop running, little Loner. — Skye Callahan

All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we obey its laws. I think we must recognize that common moral base. But in alliances we must always be careful just of what level the alliance is perceived. I will go and lecture to an atheist society, for example, but I will not lecture for them, because I am not an atheist. You see the difference. — John Lennox

I'm always looking for overlooked post-Dylan singer-songwriter records from the '70s. — Noah Baumbach

She could not help but feel that paying money to take ownership of a living organism was inappropriate. — Haruki Murakami

Hester glowered at her. "The biggest mistake a villain can make is to get caught up in revenge. Hansel and Gretel were two hungry kids trying to survive in the Woods. Mother thought she'd captured another pair of greedy, gluttonous brats, only to grossly underestimate them. Hansel and Gretel killed her because they had to. It wasn't personal." She glanced back at the old siblings. "Doesn't mean I can stand the sight of 'em, of course. But it also doesn't mean their story has anything to do with mine anymore. — Soman Chainani