Zygotic Genes Quotes & Sayings

Be confident in spirit and courageous in soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me. — Alan King

Starting out from the fact that the frustrated predominate among the early adherents of all mass movements and that they usually join of their own accord, it is assumed:
1) that frustration of itself, without any proselytizing prompting from the outside, can generate most of the peculiar characteristics of the true believer;
2) that an effective technique of conversion consists basically in the inculcation and fixation of proclivities and responses indigenous to the frustrated mind. — Eric Hoffer

Whenever man forgets that man is an animal, the result is always to make him less humane. — Joseph Wood Krutch

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later! — Gustave Flaubert

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself — Miriam Toews

Let me eat the love and digest it.
Let me love the flower and beautify it. — Debasish Mridha

Had she learned to feel again, only to have to feel this? Could any amount of love ever be worth the pain of losing it? — Robin Hobb

It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. — Jacqueline Carey