"A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is."

-- Dave Barry

#Literature Quotes #Genes Quotes #Type Quotes

“I try to keep my private life private.”
“People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.”
“I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if Iâ€™m her knight in shinning armor.”

Source : "Perfect Chemistry". Book by Simone Elkeles, December 23, 2008.
“Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.”
“I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.”

Source : "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.
“Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.”
“Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jane Smiley from Apr 06, 2013
“Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.”

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