1020 Quotes

#1. In an average person, ATP is produced at a rate of 9 x 1020 molecules per second, which equates to a turnover rate (the rate at which it is produced and consumed) of about 65 kg every day.

Nick Lane

#2. If you are not familiar with millibars, 1020 is high; 1000 is low; and what really matters is direction and speed of change.

Webb Chiles

#3. The cross cannot be defeated for it is defeat.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#4. I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.

Bernard Hinault

#5. I was having one of my wading through molasses mornings where I could feel myself moving and thinking and doing, but it was all happening in slow motion.

Tess Oliver

#6. Being shaken to death by a Hawaiian tourist look-alike was not how Arena imagined her death.

Lynn Blackmar

#7. If I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.

Mary Shelley

#8. So weird," Decker mumbled. "I thought she walked through walls.""I guess she doesn't have to. This is how she kept getting my porno stash last summer,"Beck
grumbled. "I had it behind lock and key.""Our porno stash. I told you to give it to Grandpa Louis. She leaves him alone.

Lizzy Ford

#9. It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

Barton Gellman

#10. So she had looked in on Mark, reading his correspondence with his copy of The Times airing on a chair-back before the fire - for he was just the man to retain the eighteen-forty idea that you can catch cold by reading a damp newspaper.

Ford Madox Ford

#11. I was definitely out of control, but I loved the game of basketball and I played to win and I didn't understand anything less than that. That's why I have a hard time with the young men who can't play because they went to the dentist this afternoon.

Mel Daniels

#12. If we want to improve American food and make it much cheaper, we should deregulate the food trucks and the other street vendors, provided they meet certain sanitation standards. Many cities have already moved down this path, and people are not keeling over with salmonella.

Tyler Cowen

#13. Work therefore is the paramount key to discovering yourself.

Sunday Adelaja

#14. When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

Tony Benn

#15. Opposites blur and become one. If you open your mind, that is.

Conrad Wesselhoeft

#16. Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted.

Mark Nepo