Edinburgh University Quotes

#1. My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Robert Edwards

#2. You grow. You are large.
You are a 19th century poem.
All of America is inside you,
a catalogue of lives and land
and burrowing things.
-From "Catalogue

Donika Kelly

#3. Persons of good sense, I have since observed, seldom fall into disputation, except lawyers, university men, and men of all sorts that have been bred at Edinburgh.

Benjamin Franklin

#4. There has always been something less than wholesome about New Labour. But Blair for a long time had an easy ride. There was the whopping majority. There was the relief that the Tories were finally gone. There was the grand hyperbole.

Martin Jacques

#5. It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

John Hart

#6. This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.

Marina And The Diamonds

#7. Manipulators are very evolved. Energy is food. Forget good and bad. Is the coyote bad and the rabbit good?

Frederick Lenz

#8. The word has not been recognized as a virus because it has achieved a state of stable symbiosis with the host.

William S. Burroughs

#9. Identify what frustrates you and find a way to fix it!

Abhishek Ratna

#10. There should always be an end game, or else all you are doing is practicing for an opportunity for which you have no idea of what it is or what it will even look like.

Carlos Wallace

#11. I'd never saved anyone or anything in my whole life. I didn't like the idea of it. I was nobody's hero. But the alternative option would have been to let Georgie die, so I guess just this once an exception had to be made.

Sarah Darlington

#12. Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#13. I've been able to tour because of my music and I've learned a lot about myself while on the road. I think some of the imagery of my writing are snapshots of where I've been and my feelings about the world.

Aesop Rock

#14. It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.

Kym Whitley