"We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party."

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Source : Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

Lewis Thomas

#Party Quotes #Sea Quotes #Dna Quotes

“You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.”
“I think food trucks are the new answer to American fast food. The idea of raising two or three million dollars and going through red tape to open a restaurant, there's lots of barriers to success. There's a really easy jumping place for food trucks. It's very hip and acceptable for new chefs to open a food truck first.”

Source : "Q&A With Tyler Florence, Host of the Food Network’s Great Food Truck Race". Interview with Sarah Bennett, www.dmagazine.com. November 30, 2012.
“Thought is born of failure.”

Source : Lancelot Law Whyte (1975). “The Universe of Experience: A Worldview Beyond Science and Religion”, p.78, Transaction Publishers
“It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.”
“God's will concerning financial prosperity and abundance is clearly revealed in the Scriptures.”

Source : Gloria Copeland (1978). “God's Will is Prosperity”, Harrison House Incorporated
“I wrote my will across the sky, in stars”
“I deserve someone who likes me for who I am pretending to be.”
“L.A. can be pretty insane because there's so much show business here, but I also know a lot of kids who grew up in Manhattan who are some of the most normal, nicest people I know. Casting directors always say Chicago people are just nicer.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

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