#part

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. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#along #around #back #bees #dancing

The whole world is out of step, apart from me. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#me #out #step #whole #world

We tend to think of politicians as time-servers and slackers. But on those committees they usually have an interest in the subject. And they're quite clever. I've seen them pick people apart. ↗

— Mark Thomas

#clever #committees #i #interest #people

Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#counterparts #familiar #girl #how #i

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#grand #important #literature #lord #lord of the rings

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party. ↗

— Stephanie Beacham

#backdoor #i #i am #middle #party

A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles! ↗

— Charles Anthon

#been #book #dug #enormous #fastened

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#appropriate #bank #central #central bank #chance

The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#being #best #coach #created #existed