Ian Wilmut Quotes

#1. Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Aidan Chambers

#2. I haven't done anything that can match up to what I learnt about myself as an actress and as a person or the friends that I made.

Yasmin Paige

#3. I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#4. Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

Ian Wilmut

#5. Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Walter Raleigh

#6. Towering genius ... thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. I've realized that with each novel I seem to set out a kind of puzzle for myself. And I am never sure in the process of writing a first draft how it's all going to turn out.

Laurie Foos

#8. I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And so, I looked around and when I was at high school, probably 14 or so, my parents through friends arranged for me to be able to go work on farms on the weekend.

Ian Wilmut

#9. The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

Ian Schrager

#10. My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.

Kevin Brownlow

#11. A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.

Ian Wilmut

#13. Third is Omega, the relative density of the universe. If Omega were too small, then the universe would have expanded and cooled too fast.

Michio Kaku

#14. We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.
Winnie-the-Pooh

A.A. Milne

#15. In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.

Winston Graham

#16. Where are we going?
I don't know yet.
Anyplace is good, so long as there's sausage and bitches.

Kevin Hearne

#17. Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.

Vaclav Klaus

#18. It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

Ian Wilmut