"I am my mother's daughter,... I am her only novel."

-- Marge Piercy

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Novel Quotes

“Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.”
“The messages that DNA molecules contain are all but eternal when seen against the time scale of individual lifetimes. The lifetimes of DNA messages give or take a few mutations are measured in units ranging from millions of years to hundreds of millions of years; or, in other words, ranging from 10,000 individual lifetimes to a trillion individual lifetimes. Each individual organism should be seen as a temporary vehicle, in which DNA messages spend a tiny fraction of their geological lifetimes.”
“The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece.”

Source : Robert L. Heilbroner (1955). “The Great Economists: Their Lives and Their Conceptions of the World”
“Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.”
“Did something happen to the sanctity of your church again?" My eye twitched. "Newt broke it so she could look in my closet." Again.”
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
“[On New York:] ... a city rose before me. It was narrow and tall like a gothic temple, surrounded by water, and ... it suddenly appeared, as if with a slight push it detached itself out of the invisible into the visible.”
“Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird.”

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