Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Venter

It turns out synthesizing DNA is very difficult. There are tens of thousands of machines around the world that make small pieces of DNA - 30 to 50 letters in length - and it's a degenerate process, so the longer you make the piece, the more errors there are.

Peter Drucker

Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

Henry David Thoreau

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.

Richard Dawkins

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

Sgt. Ring

If the person who is responsible for doing this is watching, it is only going to take the smallest piece of evidence. One little piece of evidence. DNA is not visible to the naked eye and other pieces of evidence are not visible to the naked eye. And, when you walk and you move throughout the planet, you leave traces of yourself everywhere you go.

David Beito

The DNA test was useful for discounting these urban legends,

Emmitt Smith

If you know anything about me, I've never been a trash-talker. That's not even part of my DNA.

Oliver Stone

Many films are forgotten and deserve to be, but others glom onto the DNA and they keep a share of the collective consciousness. It's a profound question: What are we here for? What is the purpose, the sum effect of our work?

Kamala Harris

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

Julian Assange

I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

Lea Salonga

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

Kenneth R. Miller

Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.

Steve Klosterman

We just have to hit smarter shots. We're hitting out too much, not challenging the block. We're making too many errors on our side of the net.

Lori Snell

We made too many errors and did not have the sticks to back ourselves up.

Kevin Bowler

I don't know exactly how many errors we made, but it was way too many.

Yogi Berra

Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.

William Osler

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

Joe Archuleta

Part of the reason they had errors is because we're hitting it hard. We hit some on the nose.

Brian Ashton

In my opinion, we looked the more challenging side, but we made too many silly errors which gifted them soft points.

Loren Jacula

I just don't think we were prepared to play at such a high level. Mount Royal played really well and they're a very good team. They're ranked third in Canada. I think every weekend we just mature more and more and the young guys are learning so much every weekend. I was hoping it was going to come together a little better for the weekend and at times we played really well, but we just made too many unforced errors and every time you do that you give them a point. So I wanted to reinforce the idea of not making unforced errors.

Mike Sanchez

I'm trying to work on little errors that I am still doing. It's all technique. I can throw, but it is technique that is going to take me far.

Edwin Way Teale

How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is often far from a true measure of your days of living.

Evan Esar

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

John Andrews

When a sermon at length comes to an end, people rise and praise God, and they feel the same way after many other speeches

Lady Gregory

It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.

Barry Ritholtz

If you have read me for any length of time, you know I am less than enthralled with much of what passes for financial news.

Margaret Atwood

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

Terry Pratchett

They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

Rainbow Rowell

I might not use capital letters. But I would definitely use an apostrophe…and probably a period. I’m a huge fan of punctuation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover of letters loves power too.

Karen Joy Fowler

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

John McPhee

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.

Jill Thomas

The request-for-donation letters didn't get out in time.

Bryan Callen

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

Curt Johnston

Unfortunately, it seems like there are always winners and losers with this kind of decision. They'll probably write letters to the editor, tell us how stupid we are, and tell us we don't listen to the public.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

George Charamba

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Elliot Morley

In many parts of the country, water is a precious resource which we can no longer simply take for granted.

Joe Nathan

It's really nice to get out there the next day. You don't want to be sitting down there thinking about it any longer than you have to.

Harry Harnish

The turkey vulture has a V-shaped wingspan and a white head. Unlike eagles, vultures tend to glide for longer periods of time.

Peter Frampton

The Longer You Love,The Longer You Live,The Stronger You Feel,The More You Can Give.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Gary Brown

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Julian Assange

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,

Nicholas Negroponte

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

Kip Thorne

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Pico Iyer

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

I wouldn't consider myself Goth, but I love Gothic pieces.

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Sarah Dessen

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

Rod Serling

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Nicole Polizzi

What I'd like is to turn out like Jessica Simpson, with her whole brand

Lucy Maud Montgomery

To dispair is to turn your back on God.

Cliff Floyd

A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game.

Tim Tebow

I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me.

Derek Walcott

How can I turn from Africa and live?

Alfred Hitchcock

Never turn your back on a friend.

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not conceived a lady, one turns into one.