Atlantic Wall Quotes

#1. During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.

Stephen Ambrose

#2. Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.

Craig Venter

#3. Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

J.D. Salinger

#4. I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

Albert Einstein

#5. But there's a bigger trend I'm seeing: people who used to enjoy blogging their lives are now moving to Twitter.

Robert Scoble

#6. My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death
it is the only certainty.

Eugenie De Guerin

#7. For sin bust be punished either by the penitent sinner or by God, his judge; and God, who has promised pardon to the penitent sinner, has nowhere promised to one who delays his conversion a morrow to do penance in.

Augustine Of Hippo

#8. When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a rock star, not an actor. It means I can do what I want on my own terms.

Iwan Rheon

#9. She was in me, in my blood, invading every cell in my body. She was the one I wanted. She was the one I saw, felt, desired. This was wrong. He was wrong. It was all so wrong.

Julie Anne Peters

#10. Sri Krishna refers, of course, to this world as a joyless, transient world. Obviously, he's never been to Disneyland.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

Saint John Chrysostom

#12. After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.

Erle Stanley Gardner

#13. For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

Plato

#14. Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

Natalie Goldberg